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sandspur

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sand·bur   (sānd'bûr')   
n.   In both senses also called sandspur.

  1. Any of several grasses of the genus Cenchrus, especially C. tribuloides, of the eastern United States and tropical America, having a spiny burlike envelope that surrounds several one-grained spikelets.

  2. The burlike envelope of any of these plants.

sand·spur   (sānd'spûr')   
n.  See sandbur.
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sandspur

noun
grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs [syn: sandbur] 
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