Definition of grass Grass
/gɹæˈs/ - [grats] - grass
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| grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay | ||
| graminaceous plant, gramineous plant cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves | ||
| beach grass tough grasses with strong roots that can grow on exposed sandy shores | ||
| bunch grass, bunchgrass any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | ||
| midgrass any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States; includes most of the forage grasses of the temperate zone | ||
| short-grass, shortgrass any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | ||
| sword grass any of various grasses or sedges having sword-shaped leaves with sharp edges | ||
| tall-grass, tallgrass any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture | ||
| lemon grass, lemongrass a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | ||
| aegilops triuncalis, goat grass European grass naturalized as a weed in North America; sharp-pointed seeds cause injury when eaten by livestock | ||
| wheat-grass, wheatgrass a grass of the genus Agropyron | ||
| bent-grass, bent grass, bent a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" | ||
| broom grass any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making | ||
| arrhenatherum elatius, evergreen grass, false oat, french rye, tall meadow grass, tall oat grass coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage | ||
| brome, bromegrass any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | ||
| grama, grama grass, gramma, gramma grass pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | ||
| buchloe dactyloides, buffalo grass short grass growing on dry plains of central United States (where buffalo roam) | ||
| reed grass any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere | ||
| bur grass, burgrass a grass of the genus Cenchrus | ||
| cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur, sandspur grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | ||
| finger grass any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils | ||
| cortaderia selloana, pampas grass tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps | ||
| arundo richardii, cortaderia richardii, plumed tussock, toe toe, toetoe tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads | ||
| bahama grass, bermuda grass, cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, kweek, scutch grass, star grass trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | ||
| cynodon plectostachyum, giant star grass perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay | ||
| cocksfoot, dactylis glomerata, orchard grass, cockspur widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | ||
| crab grass, crabgrass, finger grass grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | ||
| lyme grass a grass of the genus Elymus | ||
| wild rye any of several grasses of the genus Elymus | ||
| bay grass, love grass any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion | ||
| plume grass a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes | ||
| fescue, fescue grass, festuca elatior, meadow fescue grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns | ||
| festuca ovina, sheep's fescue, sheep fescue cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass | ||
| silver grass of Australia and New Zealand | ||
| holcus lanatus, velvet grass, yorkshire fog tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage | ||
| creeping soft grass, holcus mollis European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage | ||
| rye grass, ryegrass any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses | ||
| muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble will, nimblewill slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | ||
| dallis grass, dallisgrass, paspalum, paspalum dilatatum tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | ||
| bahia grass, paspalum notatum perennial tropical American grass used as pasture grass in arid areas of the Gulf States | ||
| knotgrass, paspalum distichum low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | ||
| fountain grass, pennisetum ruppelii, pennisetum setaceum tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia | ||
| feathertop grass, pennistum villosum, feathertop northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | ||
| gardener's garters, lady's laces, phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass, ribbon grass perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America | ||
| birdseed grass, canary grass, phalaris canariensis Canary Islands grass; seeds used as feed for caged birds | ||
| harding grass, hardinggrass, phalaris aquatica, phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | ||
| herd's grass, phleum pratense, timothy a grass grown for hay | ||
| blue grass, bluegrass a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | ||
| meadow grass, meadowgrass any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | ||
| munj, munja, saccharum bengalense, saccharum munja tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | ||
| andropogon furcatus, andropogon gerardii, blue stem, bluestem tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | ||
| cord grass, cordgrass any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders | ||
| drop-seed, dropseed a grass of the genus Sporobolus | ||
| rush-grass, rush grass grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles | ||
| st. augustine grass, stenotaphrum secundatum, buffalo grass low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass | ||
| cereal grass, cereal a breakfast food prepared from grain | ||
| grass - German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) | ||
| Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass | ||
| grass - bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | ||
| eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage | ||
| fodder coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | ||
| grass - street names for marijuana | ||
| pot, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane | ||
| cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | ||
| grass - a police informer who implicates many people | ||
| supergrass | ||
| blabber, informer, betrayer, squealer, rat one who reveals confidential information in return for money | ||
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| grass - cover with grass | ||
| grass over | ||
| spread over, cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| grass - feed with grass | ||
| pasture, graze, crop scrape gently; "graze the skin" | ||
| grass - cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their property" | ||
| cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| grass - shoot down, of birds | ||
| pip, hit, shoot pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| grass - spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | ||
| unfold, spread out, spread, open spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" | ||
| grass - give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" | ||
| denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag | ||
| inform give character or essence to; "The principles that inform modern teaching" | ||
| sell out give information that compromises others | ||
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Wiktionary 
- grass (Noun)
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. - grass (Noun)
A lawn. - grass (Noun)
Marijuana. - grass (Noun)
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group of criminals, etc to the authorities. - grass (Noun)
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube , produced by random interference. - grass (Noun)
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display. - grass (Verb)
To lay out on the grass; to knock down an opponent etc.. - grass (Verb)
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on criminals etc to the authorities.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- grass (n.)
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture. - grass (n.)
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. - grass (n.)
The season of fresh grass; spring. - grass (n.)
Metaphorically used for what is transitory. - grass (v. t.)
To cover with grass or with turf. - grass (v. t.)
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. - grass (v. t.)
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish. - grass (v. i.)
To produce grass.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A very large and widespread family of Monocotyledoneae, with more than 10.000 species, most of which are herbaceous, but a few are woody. The stems are jointed, the long, narrow leaves originating at the nodes. The flowers are inconspicuous, with a much reduced perianth, and are wind-pollinated or cleistogamous. -
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A drug prepared from the cannabis plant, that is smoked or ingested for its euphoric effect.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gras, n. common herbage: an order of plants (Gramineæ), the most important in the whole vegetable kingdom, with long, narrow leaves and tubular stem, including wheat, rye, oats, rice, millet, and all those which supply food for nearly all graminivorous animals: short for asparagus—sparrow-grass: time of grass, spring or summer: the surface of a mine.—v.t. to cover with grass: to feed with grass: to bring to the grass or ground, as a bird or a fish—(various perennial fodder grasses are timothy, fox-tail, cock's-foot, and the fescue grasses, Italian rye-grass, &c.).—ns. Grass′-Cloth, a name applied to different kinds of coarse cloth, the fibre of which is rarely that of a grass, esp. to the Chinese summer-cloth made from Bœhmeria nivea, which is really a nettle; Grass′-cut′ter, one of the attendants on an Indian army, whose work is to provide provender for the baggage-cattle; Grass′er, an extra or temporary worker in a printing-office.—adjs. Grass′-green, green with grass: green as grass; Grass′-grown, grown over with grass.—ns. Grass′hopper, a saltatorial, orthopterous insect, nearly allied to locusts and crickets, keeping quiet during the day among vegetation, but noisy at night; Grass′iness; Grass′ing, the exposing of linen in fields to air and light for bleaching purposes; Grass′-land, permanent pasture; Grass′-oil, a name under which several volatile oils derived from widely different plants are grouped; Grass′-plot, a plot of grassy ground; Grass′-tree, a genus of Australian plants, with shrubby stems, tufts of long wiry foliage at the summit, and a tall flower-stalk, with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers; Grass′-wid′ow, a wife temporarily separated from her husband, often also a divorced woman, or one deserted by her husband; Grass′-wrack, the eel-grass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.—adj. Grass′y, covered with or resembling grass, green.—Go to grass, to be turned out to pasture, esp. of a horse too old to work: to go into retirement, to rusticate: to fall violently (of a pugilist); Let the grass grow under one's feet, to loiter, linger.—Spanish grass (see Esparto). [A.S. gærs, græs; Ice., Ger., Dut., and Goth. gras; prob. allied to green and grow.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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Men who volunteer from the plough-tail, and often prove valuable seamen. -
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A term applied to vegetables in general. (See FEED OF GRASS.)
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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March grass never did good. -
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If the grass grow in Janiveer, It grows the worse for't all the year. -
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While the grass grows the steed starves. -
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Grass grows not upon the highway.
Wikipedia 
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Grass is a type of plant that covers the ground like a green rug. If it gets too cold or dry, it turns brown.
There is a family of plants called the "grass family". The plants in the grass family are called grasses. Most grasses do not grow taller than 0.5 meters. Some grasses like bamboo can grow tall.
Grass and People.
People have used grasses for a long time. People eat grasses. People have grown them as food for farm animals for about 10,000 years. Grasses have also been used to make paper for more than 4000 years. In Asia, people use bamboo to build houses and other things.
