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Plural of bur

regular plural

The plural of bur is burs.

Forms of bur

Singularbur /bɝ/
Pluralburs
Countablecountable

Burs in a sentence

  • Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.1944, Emily Carr, “Meg the Worker”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry barb

Meaning of bur

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

Full definition of bur

Questions about the plural of bur

What is the plural of bur?
The plural of bur is burs.
Is bur countable?
Bur is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bur (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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