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noun
1.
any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family.
2.
such plants collectively, as when cultivated in lawns or used as pasture for grazing animals or cut and dried as hay.
3.
the grass-covered ground.
4.
pasture: Half the farm is grass.
5.
EXPANDSlang. marijuana.
6.
grasses, stalks or sprays of grass: filled with dried grasses.
7.
COLLAPSEthe season of the new growth of grass.
verb (used with object)
8.
to cover with grass or turf.
9.
to feed with growing grass; pasture.
10.
to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching.
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Grasses
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verb (used without object)
Idioms11.
to feed on growing grass; graze.
12.
to produce grass; become covered with grass.
13.
go to grass, to retire from one's occupation or profession: Many executives lack a sense of purpose after they have gone to grass.
14.
let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action, progress, etc.; become slack in one's efforts.
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Word Origin & History
grass
O.E. græs, gærs "herb, plant, grass," from P.Gmc. grasan (cf. O.N., Ger., Goth. gras), from PIE *ghros- "young shoot, sprout," from base *gro-/*gre- "that which grows" (cf. L. gramen "grass"); related to grow and green. Sense of "marijuana" is first recorded 1938, Amer.Eng. Grasshopper is
EXPANDO.E. gærshoppa (cf. M.Swed. gräshoppare, Ger. Grashüpfer); as a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii.5. Grass widow (1528) was originally "discarded mistress" (cf. Ger. Strohwitwe, lit. "straw-widow"), probably in allusion to casual bedding. Sense of "married woman whose husband is absent" is from 1846.
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"[G]rasse wydowes ... be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre and neuer take but one at onys." [More, 1528]
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Science Dictionary
grass  (grās) Pronunciation Key
Any of a large family (Gramineae or Poaceae) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover. Wheat, maize, sugar cane, and bamboo are grasses. See more at leaf. |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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