In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
sandbur, sandspur, field sandbur, Cenchrus tribuloides
(noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sandbur (plural sandburs)
Any of several grasses, of the genus Cenchrus, found in the south-eastern United States, that has a spiny burr
• Dunbars, dun-bars
Source: Wiktionary
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.