What's the difference between burdock and burrock?
Burdock
Definition:
(n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sushi and sashimi are the freshest and best I've had in forever, the specials are always interesting (burdock root, crispy pig's ear, sole pirate ship!)
(2) Until now, 14 viroids have been described and 12 diseases of potatoes, tomatoes, citruses, chrysanthemums, cucumbers, hops, coconut palms avocado trees and burdock are known to be caused by viroids.
(3) Pop into the luxurious surroundings of Burdocks for a traditional Dublin lunch of chips and tea with brown sauce squeezed into it (" Fuckin delish! "
(4) The effect of fresh or boiled juices from 10 vegetables on the incidence of DMBA-induced aberrant metaphase cells (not including cells with gaps) revealed significant suppression of the incidence by fresh or boiled juice from onion, burdock, egg plant, cabbage and welsh onion.
(5) Treatment for 28 days with preparations of burdock (Arctium lappa), cashew (Anacardium occidentale), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), elder (Sambucus nigra), fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum), guayusa (Ilex guayusa), hop (Humulus lupulus), nettle (Urtica dioica), cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), sage (Salvia officinale), and wild carrot (Daucus carrota) did not affect the parameters of glucose homeostasis examined in normal mice (basal plasma glucose and insulin, glucose tolerance, insulin-induced hypoglycaemia and glycated haemoglobin).
(6) Clinical improvement was measured by the Lorr IMPS and the Burdock Ward Behavior Scale.
(7) Gobo dietary fiber (GDF) was prepared from the roots of edible burdock (Arctium lappa L.).
(8) Lysozyme has been used to preserve fresh fruits and vegetables, tofu bean curd, seafoods, meats and sausages, potato salad, cooked burdock with soy sauce, and varieties of semihard cheeses such as Edam, Gouda, and some Italian cheeses.
(9) The carcinogenicity of cacalia, dandelion, ostrich-fern, and aralia, which are wild plants used as human food or folk medicine, and of burdock, bambooshoots, and lotus, which are cultivated as vegetables in Japan, was examined in an inbred strain ACI rats.
(10) These rating scales are: 1. the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, 2. the Wittenborn Psychiatric Rating Scale, 3. the Structured clinical Interview (Burdock and Hardesty) and 4. the Befindlichkeitsskala (Condition Scale) (v. Zerssen).
(11) When crude DF (GDF) prepared from the roots of edible burdock (Arctium lappa L.) were added at graded levels to a purified basal diet supplemented with amaranth (control), growth was improved with increaseing GDF level up to and above that of the basal diet-fed group.
(12) These rating scales are: 1. the Hamilton-Psychiatric-Rating-Scale for Depression 2. the Wittenborn-Psychiatric-Rating-Scale 3. the Structured Clinical Interview (Burdock and Hardesty) and 4. the Befindlichkeits-Skala (Condition-Scale).
Burrock
Definition:
(n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.