n. In both senses also called sandspur.
- 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.
- The burlike envelope of any of these plants.
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