Sandspur (Noun)
Meaning
Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- While hiking through the prairie, she brushed against a sandspur and got a painful bur stuck in her sock.
- After spending the summer outdoors, his pant legs were covered in sandspur burs that still hadn't fully worked themselves free.
- Sandspur grew in thick clumps along the beach road, spreading beyond the sidewalk and onto the pavement.
- As the days shortened and the weather cooled, the sandspur gave way to taller grasses that prevailed through the winter.
- Despite her jeans and long sleeves, she still got a sandspur bur stuck to her boot after walking through the meadow.