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sandbur

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sand·bur  (sndbûr)
n. In both senses also called sandspur.
1. Any of several grasses of the genus Cenchrus, especially C. tribuloides, of the eastern United States and tropical America, having a spiny burlike envelope that surrounds several one-grained spikelets.
2. The burlike envelope of any of these plants.
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Noun1.sandbur - grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burssandbur - grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandspur
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
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