SANDBUR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs

Synonyms:

Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sandbur" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("sandbur" is a member of...):

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

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