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SANDSPUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
Hypernyms ("sandspur" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("sandspur" is a member of...):
Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs)