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sandbur
 
SYLLABICATION:sand·bur
PRONUNCIATION:  sndbûr
NOUN: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. In both senses also called sandspur.
 
 
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