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GENUS CENCHRUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs
Synonyms:
Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cenchrus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cenchrus"):
bur grass; burgrass (a grass of the genus Cenchrus)
Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur (grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs)
Holonyms ("genus Cenchrus" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
