SANDSPUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandspur mean? 

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

1. grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDSPUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur

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

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

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

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