BUR GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bur grass mean? 

• BUR GRASS (noun)
  The noun BUR GRASS has 1 sense:

1. a grass of the genus Cenchrus

  Familiarity information: BUR GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUR GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grass of the genus Cenchrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bur grass; burgrass

Hypernyms ("bur grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bur grass"):

buffel grass; Cenchrus ciliaris; Pennisetum cenchroides (erect tussock-forming perennial bur grass used particularly in South Africa and Australia for pasture and forage)

Holonyms ("bur grass" is a member of...):

Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs)