CENCHRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cenchrus mean? 

• CENCHRUS (noun)
  The noun CENCHRUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs

  Familiarity information: CENCHRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENCHRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus

Hypernyms ("Cenchrus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Cenchrus"):

bur grass; burgrass (a grass of the genus Cenchrus)

Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur (grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs)

Holonyms ("Cenchrus" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)