An East Indian plant, the burdock or a similar climbing plant with root vegetables used in Asian cooking.
From Hindustani 'bunduk' or 'bundak,' related to Sanskrit roots, referring to a plant with edible roots found in South Asian regions.
Burdock root is huge in Japanese and Korean cuisine today, and this old colonial word reminds us how Europeans slowly discovered vegetables that Asian cultures had been eating for thousands of years!
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