dock

English

/dɒk/, /dɑk/

noun
Definitions
  • Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially , and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
  • A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Etymology

Derived from Middle English dokke derived from Old English docce derived from Proto-Germanic *dukk- derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰew-

Gloss

die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle

Concept
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Time

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

暗, 闇, 冥

Emoji
🎲

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