grass

IPA: grˈæs

(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
(countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
(mining) The surface of a mine.
A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
A surname.

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
(transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
(transitive) To feed with grass.
(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Examples of "grass" in Sentences

LILY _gathering flowers and grass among the grass_.
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
When it comes to beauty routines, the grass is always greener.
You go into that ballpark, and the grass is the best in baseball.
I guess the grass is always greener on someone elses battlefields.
Does anyone know if & where Zoysia grass is available here in Mexico?
This year's awardees included a handful of well-known groups and dozens that truly embody the term grass roots.
He vowed to shut failing charter schools, and pushed back against what he predicted would be "reflexive partisanship" to a push for charters, which he described as a grass-roots, statewide movement.
Several nights ago I heard a politician use the term grass roots, and it suddenly struck me, a retired high school English teacher, that I was ignorant of its derivation, even though I did know the expression denoted people and places "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."