sandspur

Questions about sandspur

What does sandspur mean?

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

How many syllables are in sandspur?

sandspur has 2 syllables and divides as sand-spur under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sandspur?

Close synonyms include sandbur, field sandbur, 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 sandspur a common word?

sandspur 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.