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SANDBUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sandbur mean?
• SANDBUR (noun)
The noun SANDBUR has 1 sense:
1. grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Familiarity information: SANDBUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur
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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