Editing Arctium (section)

=== Inspiration for velcro ===
After taking his dog for a walk one day in the late 1940s (1948), [[George de Mestral]], a Swiss inventor, became curious about the seeds of the burdock plant that had attached themselves to his clothes and to the dog's fur. Under a microscope, he looked closely at the hook system that the seeds use to hitchhike on passing animals aiding seed dispersal, and he realized that the same approach could be used to join other things together. His work led to the development of the [[hook and loop fastener]], which was initially sold under the [[Velcro]] brand name.<ref name="Hook and loop fastener">{{cite book |last=Strauss |first=Steven D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_yOHB54CxsC&pg=PA18 |title=The Big Idea: How Business Innovators Get Great Ideas to Market |date=December 2001 |publisher=Kaplan Business |isbn=0-7931-4837-5 |pages=15–pp.18 |author-link1=Steven Strauss |access-date=May 9, 2008}}</ref>

[[Serbo-Croatian]] uses the same word, {{lang|sh|čičak}}, for burdock and velcro;<ref name="cicak">{{cite web|url=http://hjp.znanje.hr/index.php?show=search_by_id&id=f1pnWRU%3D&keyword=%C4%8Di%C4%8Dak|title=čičak | work = Hrvatski jezični portal |language=hr |publisher= Znanje d.d. and Srce |access-date=September 17, 2013}}</ref> Turkish does the same with the name {{lang|tr|pitrak}}, while in the [[Polish language]] {{lang|pl|rzep}} means both "burr" and "velcro".<ref>{{Cite web |title=rzep - definicja, synonimy, przykłady użycia |url=https://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/rzep.html |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=sjp.pwn.pl |language=pl}}</ref> The German word for burdock is {{lang|de|Klette}} and velcro is {{lang|de|Klettverschluss}} (= burdock fastener).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} 
In [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] burdock is {{lang|no|borre}} and velcro {{lang|no|borrelås}}, which translates to "burdock lock".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Borrelås|url=http://www.sprakradet.no/Vi-og-vart/hva-skjer/Aktuelt-ord/Borrelas/|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Språkrådet|language=nn}}</ref>