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Definition of Bur grass
1. Noun. A grass of the genus Cenchrus.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Cenchrus, Genus Cenchrus
Specialized synonyms: Buffel Grass, Cenchrus Ciliaris, Pennisetum Cenchroides
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bur Grass
Literary usage of Bur grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Many who are but superficially familiar with the low herbage of the fields hesitate
to name as grass such large Bur-grass. ..."
2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Italian Bristle-grass. 13. CENCHRUS. Linn.—bur grass. (From a Greek word signifying
millet; supposed to have been originally applied to some other plant. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"Bur-Grass. Common, or frequent, in sandy lands along the Mississippi and Minnesota
rivers. (Occasionally attacked by smut, as at Minneapolis in 1884. ..."
4. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"The common names of the remaining 18 species of the list in the order given are
as follows: Cocklebur. bur-grass, crab or finger grass, rag-weed, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"But this latter is a Northern grass, not found at the South, while the Bur-grass
is to be found only beyond the limits of New England; according to Dr. ..."
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