grass
IPA: grˈæs
noun
- (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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "grass" in Sentences
- Dogs wallowed on the grass.
- The cobs are grazing grass.
- I take the grasses of the grave.
- The crickets sang in the grasses.
- The colt is gazing a grass in the field.
- It is a description of the observation of the grass.
- The active ingredient in the grasses was chlorophyll.
- The grass in the meadow garden is mowed only once or twice a year.
- They can be first seen when the grass plants in the area begin to wilt.
- The ground is covered with maze of grasses, plants, bushes and saplings.
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