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    GENUS CENCHRUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have bursplay

    Synonyms:

    Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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