cockspur Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass
    Dactylis glomerata; cocksfoot; orchard grass.
  2. noun small spiny West Indian tree
    Pisonia aculeata.

WordNet

Cock"spur noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

Webster 1913