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    SANDBUR

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly bursplay

    Synonyms:

    Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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