butterbur

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas

From butter + bur: its large leaves were once used to wrap butter.

We passed the Hieland Line in the first hour; and now if we could but pass yon crooked water, we might cast our bonnets in the air.” In Allan Water, near by where it falls into the Forth, we found a little sandy islet, overgrown with burdock, butterbur and the like low plants, that would just cover us if we lay flat. — Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris

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