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burs

burs is the plural of bur.

Meaning of bur

Noun

bur (plural burs)

  1. A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
  2. Any of several plants having such husks.
  3. A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.

See all 4 meanings of bur

Noun capitalized: BURS

BURS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bottom-up rewrite system.

Proper noun capitalized: Burs

Burs

  1. (plural) plural of Bur

Phrases with burs

Questions about burs

What is burs the plural of?
Burs is the plural of bur.
What part of speech is burs?
Burs can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near burs in the dictionary

  1. Burrusses
  2. burrweed
  3. burrweeds
  4. burry
  5. Burry Port
  6. burs
  7. bursa
  8. bursa of Fabricius
  9. bursacyte
  10. bursacytes
  11. bursae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burs (page history and authors); BURS (page history and authors); Burs (page history and authors); bur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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