buffalo bur

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   North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers

   SynonymsSolanum rostratum

   Broadernightshade

Questions about buffalo bur

What does buffalo bur mean?

buffalo bur means "North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers".

What is another word for buffalo bur?

Close synonyms include Solanum rostratum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buffalo bur a common word?

buffalo bur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.