sandbur

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sandbur - 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