Cenchrus
noun
Cen·chrus
ˈseŋkrəs
: a genus of grasses having spikelets enclosed in ovoid spiny involucres that form burs, the plants providing good forage before the bur develops
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek kenchros millet; probably akin to Latin frendere to grind
- tropicalise
- tropicalised
- tropicalises
- tropicalising
- tropicality
- tropicalization
- tropicalizations
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- tropicals
- tropicbirds
- tropiccer
- tropiccest
- tropicer
- tropicest
- tropicopolitan
- Tropicorbis
- tropics
- tropidine
- tropidoclonia
- tropidoclonions
- Tropidoleptus