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• GRASS (noun)
Meaning:
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("grass" is a kind of...):
graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grass"):
zoysia (any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia)
fountain grass; Pennisetum ruppelii; Pennisetum setaceum (tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia)
knotgrass; Paspalum distichum (low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems)
Bahia grass; Paspalum notatum (perennial tropical American grass used as pasture grass in arid areas of the Gulf States)
dallis grass; dallisgrass; paspalum; Paspalum dilatatum (tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States)
Muhlenbergia schreberi; nimble Will; nimblewill (slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States)
rye grass; ryegrass (any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses)
creeping soft grass; Holcus mollis (European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage)
Holcus lanatus; velvet grass; Yorkshire fog (tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage)
silver grass (of Australia and New Zealand)
Festuca ovina; sheep fescue; sheep's fescue (cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass)
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)
feathertop; feathertop grass; Pennistum villosum (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)
cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
buffalo grass; St. Augustine grass; Stenotaphrum secundatum (low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass)
rush grass; rush-grass (grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles)
drop-seed; dropseed (a grass of the genus Sporobolus)
cord grass; cordgrass (any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders)
Andropogon furcatus; Andropogon gerardii; blue stem; bluestem (tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States)
munj; munja; Saccharum bengalense; Saccharum munja (tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets)
meadow grass; meadowgrass (any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture)
blue grass; bluegrass (any of various grasses of the genus Poa)
herd's grass; Phleum pratense; timothy (grass with long cylindrical spikes frown in northern United States and Europe for hay)
Harding grass; hardinggrass; Phalaris aquatica; Phalaris tuberosa; toowomba canary grass (perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass)
plume grass (a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes)
bay grass; love grass (any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion)
brome; bromegrass (any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions)
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)
broom grass (any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making)
bent; bent grass; bent-grass (grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens)
wheat-grass; wheatgrass (a grass of the genus Agropyron)
Aegilops triuncalis; goat grass (European grass naturalized as a weed in North America; sharp-pointed seeds cause injury when eaten by livestock)
tall-grass; tallgrass (any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture)
sword grass (any of various grasses or sedges having sword-shaped leaves with sharp edges)
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)
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)
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)
beach grass (tough grasses with strong roots that can grow on exposed sandy shores)
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))
wild rye (any of several grasses of the genus Elymus)
lyme grass (a grass of the genus Elymus)
crab grass; crabgrass; finger grass (grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns)
cocksfoot; cockspur; Dactylis glomerata; orchard grass (widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass)
Cynodon plectostachyum; giant star grass (perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay)
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)
Arundo richardii; Cortaderia richardii; plumed tussock; toe toe; toetoe (tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads)
Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass (tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps)
finger grass (any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils)
Cenchrus tribuloides; field sandbur; sandbur; sandspur (grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs)
bur grass; burgrass (a grass of the genus Cenchrus)
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)
Meaning:
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Gunter Wilhelm Grass; Gunter Grass; Grass
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Meaning:
Animal food for browsing or grazing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
eatage; forage; pasturage; pasture; grass
Hypernyms ("grass" is a kind of...):
feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)
Meaning:
Street names for marijuana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
dope; gage; green goddess; Mary Jane; sens; sess; locoweed; weed; skunk; grass; smoke; pot
Hypernyms ("grass" is a kind of...):
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 (verb)
Meaning:
Shoot down, of birds
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cover with grass
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
The owners decided to grass their property
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
open; spread; spread out; unfold (spread out or open from a closed or folded state)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cover with grass
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
grass over; grass
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
cover; spread over (form a cover over)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Feed with grass
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Give away information about somebody
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
tell on; shit; stag; snitch; shop; give away; denounce; betray; rat; grass
Context example:
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
Hypernyms (to "grass" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grass"):
sell out (give information that compromises others)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
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