| 释义 |
burr1 or bur /bûr/ noun- The prickly seed-case or head of certain plants, which sticks to clothes or animals
- Any impediment or inconvenient adherent
- Any lump, ridge, etc, more or less sharp, an excrescence on a tree, or markings representing it in wood (as in burr-walnut)
- A knot in thread
- A knob at the base of a deer's horn
- The rough edge to a line made by an engraving tool, which, when the plate is inked, gives a further quality to the line
- Waste raw silk
- The sweetbread or pancreas
- Club moss (Scot)
- The name for various tools and appliances, such as the triangular chisel for clearing the corners of mortises, etc
- The blank driven out of a piece of sheet metal by a punch
- Burrstone
- A partly vitrified brick
ORIGIN: Cognate with Dan borre a bur burrˈy adjective burˈdock noun - A composite plant (Arctium lappa) with hooked involucral bracts and dock-like leaves
- Any species of the genus Xanthium
bur-marˈigold noun - Any plant of the composite genus Bidens, with barbed pappus
- A species of Xanthium
burˈ-reed noun A reedlike genus (Sparganium) of water plants with globular flower-heads burrstone see buhrstone burˈ-thistle noun Spear-thistle burˈweed noun Any of various burry plants such as burdock, bur-reed, cocklebur (genus Xanthium), etc burr in the throat Something seeming to stick in the throat, producing a choking sensation |