Usually means: Seed covering with sharp spines.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. bur: Merriam-Webster
  2. BUR, BUR, bur, bur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bur, bur, bur, bur, bur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bur, bur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bur: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bur, bur: Wordnik
  7. bur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bur, bur-: Wiktionary
  9. bur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bur: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BUR, bur: Dictionary.com
  13. bur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. BUR, Bur (disambiguation), Bur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bur: Rhymezone
  17. Bur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. BUR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. bur: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Bur, bur: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -bur, bur-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bur: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bur: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. bur: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bur: Genealogy Glossary
  2. BUR: Acronym Finder
  3. BUR: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bur: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See buring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
noun:  Any of several plants having such husks.
noun:  A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”). [A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.]

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