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GENUS CENCHRUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cenchrus mean?
• GENUS CENCHRUS (noun)
The noun GENUS CENCHRUS has 1 sense:
1. a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs
Familiarity information: GENUS CENCHRUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus
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)
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