Thread: "Tie your shoe and zip your pants!" (and related expressions)

velcro is sometimes called репЕйник because it clings like agrimony, however липУчка is much more common

Hmm, I've never even heard of agrimony, though wikipedia says that it grows in North America. Supposedly velcro was inspired by the seeds of the burdock plant -- called лопух in Russian, according to wiki.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Hmm, I've never even heard of agrimony, though wikipedia says that it grows in North America. Supposedly velcro was inspired by the seeds of the burdock plant -- called лопух in Russian, according to wiki.

Лопух and репейник is one and the same plant. I took translation from a dictionary so it could be inaccurate. There's burdock as well.

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