butterbur

English

A butterbur (Petasites hybridus)

Etymology

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

Noun

butterbur (plural butterburs)

1. Any of several Eurasian herbs, of the genus Petasites, having dense clusters of often purple flowers.

   Synonyms: butterdock, sweet coltsfoot

Derived terms

• Arctic butterbur
• giant butterbur

 

Translations

herb

• Arabic: أَرَام‎ m (ʔarām)
• Azerbaijani: öskürəkotu
• Belarusian: белакапытнік m (bjelakapytnik)
• Bulgarian: чоба́нка f (čobánka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜂斗菜属 (fēng dòu cài shǔ)

• Czech: devětsil m
• Danish: hestehov c
• Dutch: hoefblad (nl)
• Finnish: ruttojuuri (fi)
• French: pétasite (fr) m
• Georgian: ბუერა (buera)
• German: Pestwurz (de) f
• Greek: πετασίτης (petasítis)

  Ancient: πετασῖτις f (petasîtis)

• Irish: borrán m, gallán mór m, meacan an phobóil m
• Italian: farfaraccio m, petasite m
• Japanese: 苳 (ja), 蕗 (ja) (フキ, fuki)
• Kashubian: kòpëtnik m
• Korean: 머위 (meowi)
• Lithuanian: šaukštis m
• Macedonian: лопур m (lopur)
• Ossetian: мӕнтӕг (mæntæg)
• Polish: lepiężnik m
• Russian: белокопы́тник (ru) m (belokopýtnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ло̏пӯх, ло̏пӯр

  Latin: lȍpūh (sh), lȍpūr

• Slovak: deväťsil m
• Spanish: petasita f
• Swedish: pestskråp (sv) c
• Tatar: каз чәчәге (tt) (qaz çäçäge)