» burred
Adjective (1 meaning)
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc..
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
Examples:
- “a horse with a short bristly mane”,
- “bristly shrubs”,
- “burred fruits”,
- “setaceous whiskers”
Derivationally related form:
- barbel, feeler (noun) - slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish
- bristle (noun) - a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament)
- bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia (noun) - a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
- bur, burr (noun) - seed vessel having hooks or prickles
- prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness (noun) - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
- seta (noun) - a stiff hair or bristle
- spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet (noun) - a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
burred is similar to:
- armed (adjective) - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
» bur
Noun (2 meanings)
bur is a type of:
- pericarp, seed vessel (noun) - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
types of bur:
- Spanish needles, beggar-ticks (noun) - the seed of bur marigolds
bur is derivationally related to:
bur is a type of:
- bit (noun) - the cutting part of a drill
bur is a part of:
- dentist's drill, burr drill (noun) - a high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth
Verb (1 meaning)
» burr
Noun (5 meanings)
burr is a type of:
- pericarp, seed vessel (noun) - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
types of burr:
- Spanish needles, beggar-ticks (noun) - the seed of bur marigolds
burr is derivationally related to:
2. rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting.
burr is a type of:
- projection (noun) - any structure that branches out from a central support
3. United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836).
burr is an instance of:
- politician, politico, pol, political leader (noun) - a person active in party politics
4. rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece.
burr is a type of:
- power tool (noun) - a tool driven by a motor
burr is a type of:
- bit (noun) - the cutting part of a drill
burr is a part of:
- dentist's drill, burr drill (noun) - a high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth