Burgrass

Bur´grass`

n.

1.

(Bot.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

burgrass - a grass of the genus Cenchrus bur grass grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay Cenchrus, genus Cenchrus - a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs buffel grass, Cenchrus ciliaris, Pennisetum cenchroides - erect tussock-forming perennial bur grass used particularly in South Africa and Australia for pasture and forage