cockspur

Other forms of cockspur

plural

cockspurs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cockspur

What does cockspur mean?

cockspur means "widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cockspur?

cockspur has 2 syllables: cock-spur. The stress falls on "cock".

What is another word for cockspur?

Close synonyms include orchard grass, cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, Pisonia aculeata. 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 cockspur a common word?

cockspur 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.