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sandspur

n. grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs [syn: sandbur, field sandbur, Cenchrus tribuloides]

Usage examples of "sandspur".

Small conundrums have always worried him like a sandspur stuck to his sock.

Just as a sandspur jabbing in your foot can make walking every bit as painful as a broken bone, you can make life difficult for criminals and mean-minded no-goods.

She picked up a sandspur on the tough sole of her bare right foot, and hardly breaking stride, licked her fingertips, brought the knee high and plucked it off.

He winced as he saw his thin tires going over formidable spreads of sandspur, though he knew the stuff was harmless to him and his equipment.

Hammerhead Ranch Motel was a sandspur between the toes of everyone who lived next door in the spanking-new high-rises of Beverly Shores.

Both cocks struggled to break away from each other, but the right spur was still stuck, and all Sandspur could do was hop up and down in place on his free leg.

Sandspur turned to fight, and the cocks met head on, but my injured bird was forced back by the fierceness of Little David's rush.