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CENCHRUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have bursplay

Synonyms:

Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cenchrus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Cenchrus"):

bur grass; burgrass (a grass of the genus Cenchrus)

Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur (grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs)

Holonyms ("Cenchrus" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

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