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BUR GRASS

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Meaning:

A grass of the genus Cenchrus

Synonyms:

bur grass; burgrass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bur grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bur grass"):

buffel grass; Cenchrus ciliaris; Pennisetum cenchroides (erect tussock-forming perennial bur grass used particularly in South Africa and Australia for pasture and forage)

Holonyms ("bur grass" is a member of...):

Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs)

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