Grass /(grȧs)/
Grass
n.
- Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
- An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. (Bot.)
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The season of fresh grass; spring. [Colloq.]
Two years old next grass.
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Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
Surely the people is grass.
- Marijuana. [Slang]
Phrases & Compounds
- Black grass
- a kind of small rush (Juncus Gerardi), growing in salt marshes, used for making salt hay.
- Grass of the Andes
- an oat grass, the Arrhenatherum avenaceum of Europe.
- Grass of Parnassus
- a plant of the genus Parnassia growing in wet ground. The European species is Parnassia palustris; in the United States there are several species.
- Grass bass
- the calico bass.
- Grass bird
- the dunlin.
- Grass cloth
- a cloth woven from the tough fibers of the grass-cloth plant.
- Grass-cloth plant
- a perennial herb of the Nettle family (Bœhmeria nivea syn. Urtica nivea), which grows in Sumatra, China, and Assam, whose inner bark has fine and strong fibers suited for textile purposes.
- Grass finch
- A common American sparrow (Poöcætes gramineus); -- called also vesper sparrow and bay-winged bunting.
- Grass lamb
- a lamb suckled by a dam running on pasture land and giving rich milk.
- Grass land
- land kept in grass and not tilled.
- Grass moth
- one of many small moths of the genus Crambus, found in grass.
- Grass oil
- a fragrant essential volatile oil, obtained in India from grasses of the genus Andropogon, etc.; -- used in perfumery under the name of citronella, ginger grass oil, lemon grass oil, essence of verbena etc.
- Grass owl
- South African owl (Strix Capensis).
- Grass parrakeet
- ny of several species of Australian parrots, of the genus Euphemia; -- also applied to the zebra parrakeet.
- Grass plover
- he upland or field plover.
- Grass poly
- species of willowwort (Lythrum Hyssopifolia).
- Crass quit
- one of several tropical American finches of the genus Euetheia. The males have most of the head and chest black and often marked with yellow.
- Grass snake
- The common English, or ringed, snake (Tropidonotus natrix).
- Grass snipe
- the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also jacksnipe in America.
- Grass spider
- a common spider (Agelena nævia), which spins flat webs on grass, conspicuous when covered with dew.
- Grass sponge
- an inferior kind of commercial sponge from Florida and the Bahamas.
- Grass table
- See Earth table, under Earth.
- Grass vetch
- a vetch (Lathyrus Nissolia), with narrow grasslike leaves.
- Grass widow
- An unmarried woman who is a mother.
- Grass wrack
- eelgrass.
- To bring to grass
- to raise, as ore, to the surface of the ground.
- To put to grass
- to put out to graze a season, as cattle.
Grass
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Grassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Grassing
- To cover with grass or with turf.
- To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish. [Colloq.]
Grass
v. i.
- To produce grass. [R.]