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BUR, or BURR (apparently the same word as Danish borre, burdock, cf. Swed. kard-boore)

BUR, or See also:
BURR, AARON (1756-1836)
BURR (apparently the same word as Danish borre, burdock, cf. Swed. kard-boore) , a prickly See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit or See also:

head of fruits, as of the burdock . In the sense of a woody outgrowth on the See also:

TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk of a See also:

tree, or " gnaur," the effect of a crowded bud-development, the word is probably adapted from the Fr. bourre, a See also:

VINE

vine-bud .

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