What does field sandbur mean?

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

What is another word for field sandbur?

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

field sandbur 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.

field sandbur — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Synonymssandbur sandspur Cenchrus tribuloides
Broadergrass
Part ofCenchrus

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What does field sandbur mean?: field sandbur means "grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs".

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