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# bur

«bur» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prickly seed case or head of a plant that sticks to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (burs)

### meaning for a pupil

A bur is a prickly seed case or head of a plant that sticks to fur, wool and clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bur/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a prickle that catches in an animal's coat, such as wolves with «thorns and burs» in their coats

### examples

- The dog came home covered in burs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bur/#x1)
- I pulled a bur off my sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bur/#x2)
- Thorns and burs stuck in the sheep's wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bur/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bur» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bur/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.