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Burgrass

Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Arenaceous adjective · 78% connection

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

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Arenation noun · 78% connection

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body.

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Arenulous adjective · 78% connection

Full of fine sand; like sand.

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Beech noun · 78% connection

any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclose…

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Beech tree noun · 78% connection

any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclose…

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Bunch grass unknown · 78% connection

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are…

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Burdock noun · 78% connection

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

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Burl verb · 78% connection

To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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Burr noun · 78% connection

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

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Burring machine unknown · 78% connection

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

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Burry adjective · 78% connection

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

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Clotbur noun · 78% connection

any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs

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Darnel noun · 78% connection

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…

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Friz verb · 78% connection

To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

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Fulgurite noun · 78% connection

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a li…

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Gagger noun · 78% connection

A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

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Gama grass unknown · 78% connection

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…

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