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sand·bur

(sănd′bûr′)

1. Any of several grasses of the genus Cenchrus, having an inflorescence composed of spikelets enclosed in a spiny burlike involucre and often growing in sandy soil.

2. The spiny, easily detached involucre of any of these plants. In both senses also called sandspur.

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sand•bur

or sand•burr

(ˈsændˌbɜr)

n.

1. any of various grasses of the genus Cenchrus, having grains enclosed in prickly burs.

2. any of several bur-bearing weeds growing in sandy places.

[1820–30, Amer.]

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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

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