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nature's velcro, hitchhiking on your socks toward total world domination.
means A burr is the prickly, hooked seed-casing of certain plants that clings to fur and clothing, or by extension any small rough edge, ridge, or whirring sound.
from "Burr" comes from Middle English, with roots reaching into the Scandinavian languages — compare Danish "borre," the burdock or bur. The word seems to be onomatopoeic at heart, evoking something rough and bristling; the sense of a "whirring buzz" (as in the rolled Scottish burr of speech) and the "rough edge left on cut metal" likely grew from that same prickly, scratchy core. So the seed and the sound share one bristly ancestor.
- velcro origin
- Burrs on a dog inspired the invention of Velcro.
- seed strategy
- Hooks exist purely to ride animals to new ground.
- name twins
- Also a metal sliver, a chill, and Aaron.
- hooked science
- Microscopic barbs grip loops like tiny grappling hooks.
aaron burr — u.s. vice president under thomas jefferson, shot alexander hamilton in 1804
burr oak tree — native american landmark tree in kansas, over 300 years old