Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COCKSPUR

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Definitions of COCKSPUR

1. (countable) A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
2. (uncountable) Grass of species (Echinochloa crus-galli).
3. (countable) A hawthorn of species (Crataegus crus-galli).
4. (uncountable) Orchard grass, a widely grown tall stout hay and pasture grass (Dactylis glomerata) of Eurasia.
5. (countable) A small West Indian tree (Pisonia aculeata).
6. (countable) Any of several spiny trees, formerly all of the genus Acacia, such as Vachellia cookii (cockspur acacia).
7. (uncountable) Burgrass of species Cenchrus echinatus.
8. (uncountable) An annual European weed of species Centaurea melitensis, naturalized in North and South America.
9. Any plant of species Casearia aculeata, of the tropical Americas.

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Examples of Using COCKSPUR in a Sentence

• She was also friendly with Dr Charles Lewis Meryon, who had been a fellow boarder at 10 Warwick Street, Charing Cross, off Cockspur Street, around 1818.
• For the first 20 medals cast in 1871, the reverse of the suspender clasp contains the cartouche of the goldsmith Messrs Phillips Brothers and Son of Cockspur Street, London; which was omitted from a further five medals cast in 1886.
• Small groves of cultivated trees (Babylon willow, eucalyptus, pine, cypress, acacia, poplar and platanus) and native trees (Cockspur coral tree and araucaria angustifolia) are also found.
• It is commonly known as cockspur (or cockspur grass), barnyard millet, Japanese millet, water grass, common barnyard grass, or simply "barnyard grass" (which may refer to any species of Echinochloa or the genus as a whole however).
• Erythrina crista-galli, also known as the cockspur coral tree, ceibo (in Spanish) or corticeira (in Portuguese), is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil and Paraguay.
• Harney attended the first National Convention of the Chartists that met on Monday, 4 February 1839, at the British Coffee House, 27, Cockspur Street, London.
• 3 million CDN and were supervised by the architect Septimus Warwick, who moved the main entrance from Trafalgar Square to Cockspur Street.
• Producing work similar to the enameling done by the later Ralph and William Beilby of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he maintained a showroom in fashionable Cockspur Street in London, enjoying the patronage of royalty and affluent clients including Clive of India, the Duke of Northumberland, Princess Amelia (the second daughter of George II), Thomas Pitt, the Duke of Marlborough, the painter George Stubbs and Horace Walpole.
• crop weeds: dog's tooth grass, pricklegrass, field thistle, foxtail, cockspur, wild thyme, hoary alyssum, hawkweed oxtongue, mouse-ear hawkweed.
• The grassy vegetation present on the phreatic-hydromorphic soils in the meadow areas is dominated by species such as Amaranthus albus (tumbleweed), Agrostis gigantea (black bent), Bromus arvensis (field brome), Cynodon dactylon (dog's tooth grass), Lolium perenne (ryegrass), Dactylis glomerata (cock's-foot), Alopecurus pratensis (meadow foxtail), Festuca pratensis (meadow fescue), Poa bulbosa (bulbous bluegrass), Symphytum officinale (comfrey), Echinochloa crus-galli (cockspur), Phragmites spp.
• Adults drink nectar from many plants, including the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), the pink azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum), the blackberry (Rubus), the cockspur thorn (Crataegus crus-galli), the multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), and the bush honeysuckle (Diervilla).
• Small groves of cultivated trees by the silviculture (Babylon willow, eucalyptus, pine, cedar, cypress, acacia, poplar and platanus) and native trees (Brazilian cherry, butia, Brazilian pepper, cockspur coral tree and araucaria angustifolia) are also found.
• In 1997 the Chicago Department of Transportation planted 81 trees around the column including hackberry, Patmore green ash, Skyline honeylocust, red oak, swamp white oak, alpine currant, Virginia Rose and three varieties of hawthorns: downy, Washington and thornless cockspur.
• Coleus australis, synonyms Plectranthus australis and Plectranthus parviflorus, known as little spurflower or cockspur flower, is a shrub, occurring in Hawaii, Polynesia and Australia.
• Other common plants are mauby bark, milky thorn, lignum vitae, sage cop, loblolly, nicker tree (only on Prickly Pear East), cockspur and balsam bush.
• The four-fifths of a mile long trail encompasses approximately 40 acres and showcases several habitats that feature the rare and native Cockspur trees (Erythrina velutina) and Bull Thatch palms (Thrinax radiata).

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