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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUR, or
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BURR (apparently the same word as Danish borre, burdock, cf. Swed. kard-boore)  , a prickly
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fruit or
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head of fruits, as of the burdock . In the sense of a woody outgrowth on the
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trunk of a
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tree, or " gnaur," the effect of a crowded bud-development, the word is probably adapted from the Fr. bourre, a
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vine-bud .

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