burgrass

English

Alternative forms

• burrgrass

Etymology

From bur +‎ grass.

Noun

burgrass (countable and uncountable, plural burgrasses)

1. A grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand and having burs for fruit.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “burgrass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)