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# burr

«burr» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prickly seed case that sticks to clothes or fur, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a burr, burrs; also bur)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A burr is a prickly seed case that sticks to clothes or fur, such as from burdock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#m1)

2) A burr is a rough edge left on metal or wood after cutting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#m2)

3) A burr is a way of speaking with a rolled r sound, as in some Scottish or West Country accents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons burrs show how plants spread seeds by hitching a ride on animals; they gave the idea for Velcro. In everyday life, children pick burrs off socks after a walk. Phrases: covered in burrs, a soft burr in his voice.

### examples

- The dog came home covered in burrs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x1)
- I pulled burrs off my socks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x2)
- Burrs stick to fur with tiny hooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x3)
- The file smoothed the burr on the metal edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x4)
- The farmer spoke with a soft Scottish burr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x5)
- A man saw burrs on his dog and invented Velcro. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burr/#x6)

### note

Countable: a burr, burrs. Also spelled bur. Do not confuse with brr, a sound you make when cold, or with purr, the sound of a cat. Burr is said like the word her with a b.

### In the corpora

- [Some seeds hook onto animals' fur, like burdock burrs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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