COCKSPUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockspur mean? 

• COCKSPUR (noun)
  The noun COCKSPUR has 2 senses:

1. widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass

2. small spiny West Indian tree

  Familiarity information: COCKSPUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKSPUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cocksfoot; cockspur; Dactylis glomerata; orchard grass

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small spiny West Indian tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cockspur; Pisonia aculeata

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)