English
Etymology
From butter + bur: its large leaves were once used to wrap butter.
Pronunciation
Noun
butterbur (plural butterburs)
- Any of several Eurasian herbs, of the genus Petasites, having dense clusters of often purple flowers.
- Synonyms: butterdock, sweet coltsfoot
Derived terms
Translations
herb
- Ainu: コㇿコニ (korkoni)
- 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 Greek: 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)
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