蒡

great burdock (Arctium lappa); gobo

scorzonera (Scorzonera hispanica); Spanish salsify; viper's grass

Cirsium dipsacolepis (perennial plant of the thistle family)

Food, cooking

kinpira gobō; braised burdock root; chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce

pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out

forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators)

overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead

burdock root seasoned with sesame

American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

great burdock sold covered with soil

stone wall construction technique, with smallest stone surfaces facing outwards; burdock piling

Colloquial

bayonet