has particulars: beach grass, bunch grass, bunchgrass, midgrass, short-grass, shortgrass, sword grass, tall-grass, tallgrass, lemon grass, lemongrass, aegilops triuncalis, goat grass, wheat-grass, wheatgrass, bent, bent-grass, bent grass, broom grass, arrhenatherum elatius, evergreen grass, false oat, french rye, tall meadow grass, tall oat grass, brome, bromegrass, grama, grama grass, gramma, gramma grass, buchloe dactyloides, buffalo grass, reed grass, bur grass, burgrass, cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur, sandspur, finger grass, cortaderia selloana, pampas grass, arundo richardii, cortaderia richardii, plumed tussock, toe toe, toetoe, bahama grass, bermuda grass, cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, kweek, scutch grass, star grass, cynodon plectostachyum, giant star grass, cocksfoot, cockspur, dactylis glomerata, orchard grass, crab grass, crabgrass, finger grass, lyme grass, wild rye, bay grass, love grass, plume grass, fescue, fescue grass, festuca elatior, meadow fescue, festuca ovina, sheep's fescue, sheep fescue, silver grass, holcus lanatus, velvet grass, yorkshire fog, creeping soft grass, holcus mollis, rye grass, ryegrass, muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble will, nimblewill, dallis grass, dallisgrass, paspalum, paspalum dilatatum, bahia grass, paspalum notatum, knotgrass, paspalum distichum, fountain grass, pennisetum ruppelii, pennisetum setaceum, feathertop, feathertop grass, pennistum villosum, gardener's garters, lady's laces, phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass, ribbon grass, birdseed grass, canary grass, phalaris canariensis, harding grass, hardinggrass, phalaris aquatica, phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass, herd's grass, phleum pratense, timothy, blue grass, bluegrass, meadow grass, meadowgrass, munj, munja, saccharum bengalense, saccharum munja, andropogon furcatus, andropogon gerardii, blue stem, bluestem, cord grass, cordgrass, drop-seed, dropseed, rush-grass, rush grass, buffalo grass, st. augustine grass, stenotaphrum secundatum, cereal, cereal grass, zoysia

Derived forms verb grass₅, verb grass₄, verb grass₂, adjective grassy₁

grass(n = noun.person) gunter grass, gunter wilhelm grass - German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927); Array

is a kind of author, writer

grass(n = noun.person) supergrass - a police informer who implicates many people; Array

is a kind of betrayer, blabber, informer, rat, squealer

grass(n = noun.food) eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture - bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle; Array

is a kind of fodder

grass(n = noun.artifact) dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, mary jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed - street names for marijuana; Array

is a kind of cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana

Verb grass has 6 senses

grass(v = verb.competition) Array - shoot down, of birds; Array

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

grass(v = verb.contact) Array - cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their property"

is one way to

cover

Derived form noun grass₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

grass(v = verb.contact) Array - spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach; Array

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

grass(v = verb.contact) grass over - cover with grass; Array

is one way to cover, spread over

Derived form noun grass₁

Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

grass(v = verb.consumption) Array - feed with grass; Array

Derived form noun grass₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

grass(v = verb.communication) betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on - give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

is one way to inform

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

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CIDE DICTIONARY

grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, græs, gærs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. græs, Sw. gr, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.].

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture. [1913 Webster]

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. [1913 Webster]
" This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are commonly called by the name of grass. The grasses form a numerous family of plants." [1913 Webster]

The season of fresh grass; spring. [1913 Webster]
"Two years old next grass." [1913 Webster]

Metaphorically used for what is transitory. [1913 Webster]
"Surely the people is grass." [1913 Webster]

Marijuana. [PJC]
" The following list includes most of the grasses of the United States of special interest, except cereals. Many of these terms will be found with definitions in the Vocabulary. See Illustrations in Appendix."

" Many plants are popularly called grasses which are not true grasses botanically considered, such as black grass, goose grass, star grass, etc." [1913 Webster]

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 (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) (a) A common American sparrow (Poöcætes gramineus); -- called also vesper sparrow and bay-winged bunting. (b) Any Australian finch, of the genus Poëphila, of which several species are known. -- 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a South African owl (Strix Capensis). -- Grass parrakeet (Zoöl.), any of several species of Australian parrots, of the genus Euphemia; -- also applied to the zebra parrakeet. -- Grass plover (Zoöl.), the upland or field plover. -- Grass poly (Bot.), a species of willowwort (Lythrum Hyssopifolia). Johnson. -- Crass quit (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) (a) The common English, or ringed, snake (Tropidonotus natrix). (b) The common green snake of the Northern United States. See Green snake, under Green. -- Grass snipe (Zoöl.), the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also jacksnipe in America. -- Grass spider (Zoöl.), a common spider (Agelena nævia), which spins flat webs on grass, conspicuous when covered with dew. -- Grass sponge (Zoöl.), an inferior kind of commercial sponge from Florida and the Bahamas. -- Grass table. (Arch.) See Earth table, under Earth. -- Grass vetch (Bot.), a vetch (Lathyrus Nissolia), with narrow grasslike leaves. -- Grass widow. [Cf. Prov. R. an unmarried mother, G. strohwittwe a mock widow, Sw. gräsenka a grass widow.] (a) An unmarried woman who is a mother. [Obs.] (b) A woman separated from her husband by abandonment or prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. [Slang.] -- Grass wrack (Bot.) eelgrass. -- To bring to grass (Mining.), to raise, as ore, to the surface of the ground. -- To put to grass, To put out to grass, to put out to graze a season, as cattle.

grass, v. t.

To cover with grass or with turf. [1913 Webster]

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. [1913 Webster]

To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish. [1913 Webster]

grass, v. i.

To produce grass. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

grass, n. & v.
--n.
1 a vegetation belonging to a group of small plants with green blades that are eaten by cattle, horses, sheep, etc. b any species of this. c any plant of the family Gramineae, which includes cereals, reeds, and bamboos.
2 pasture land.
3 grass-covered ground, a lawn (keep off the grass).
4 grazing (out to grass; be at grass).
5 sl. marijuana.
6 Brit. sl. an informer, esp. a police informer.
7 the earth's surface above a mine; the pit-head.
8 sl. asparagus.
--v.
1 tr. cover with turf.
2 tr. US provide with pasture.
3 Brit. sl. a tr. betray, esp. to the police. b intr. inform the police.
4 tr. knock down; fell (an opponent).
5 tr. a bring (a fish) to the bank. b bring down (a bird) by a shot.

Idiom

at grass out of work, on holiday, etc. grass bird Austral. any of various warblers, esp. of the genus Megalurus, living among reeds. grass-box a receptacle for cut grass on a lawnmower. grass-cloth a linen-like cloth woven from ramie etc. grass court a grass-covered lawn-tennis court. grass of Parnassus a herbaceous plant, Parnassia palustris. grass parakeet Austral. a parakeet, esp. of the genus Neophema, frequenting grassland. grass roots
1 a fundamental level or source.
2 ordinary people, esp. as voters; the rank and file of an organization, esp. a political party. grass skirt a skirt made of long grass and leaves fastened to a waistband.
grass snake
1 Brit. the common ringed snake, Natrix natrix.
2 US the common greensnake, Opheodrys vernalis. grass tree = BLACKBOY. grass widow (or widower) a person whose husband (or wife) is away for a prolonged period. grass-wrack eel-grass. not let the grass grow under one's feet be quick to act or to seize an opportunity.

Derivative

grassless adj. grasslike adj.

Etymology

OE gr{aelig}s f. Gmc, rel. to GREEN, GROW

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THESAURUS

grass
Bengal grass, DET, DMT, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, aftergrass, alfilaria, antidepressant, ataractic, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, betray, black bent, bluegrass, board, bog grass, boo, bread, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, campo, canary grass, cane, cannabis, cereal, cereal plant, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, dine, farinaceous plant, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, fog, forage, forage grass, four-leaved grass, gage, ganja, give away, grain, graminaceous plant, grass veld, grasses, grassland, gratify, graze, grazing, hallucinogen, hash, hashish, hassock grass, haugh, haughland, hay, hemp, horsetail, inform, informer, joint, kava, lawn grass, lea, little quaking grass, llano, lovegrass, maize, marijuana, mead, meadow, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meadow land, meat, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mess, millet, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, morning glory seeds, myrtle grass, nark, oats, ornamental grass, paddy, palm-leaved grass, pampa, pampas, pampas grass, papyrus, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peach, peppergrass, peyote, pot, prairie, provision, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, range, rat, reed, reefer, regale, ribbon grass, rice, roach, rush, rye, satisfy, savanna, scutch, sedge, sell out, sesame, sesame grass, snitch, sorghum, squeak, squeal, squealer, steppe, steppeland, stick, stoolie, striped grass, sugar cane, sustain, swale, switch grass, sword grass, tattle, tea, traitor, tranquilizer, tufted hair grass, vega, veld, weed, wheat, wild oats, wine and dine, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia

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ROGET THESAURUS

grass

Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.

Intemperance
N intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, Circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed, intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed, being full of supper and distempering draughts.

Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval, vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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