cenchrus tribuloides

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

   Synonymssandbursandspurfield sandbur

   Broadergrass

   Part ofCenchrus

Questions about cenchrus tribuloides

What does cenchrus tribuloides mean?

cenchrus tribuloides means "grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs".

What is another word for cenchrus tribuloides?

Close synonyms include sandbur, sandspur, field sandbur. 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 cenchrus tribuloides a common word?

cenchrus tribuloides 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.