GRASS

Grass

Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the family Poaceae, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns and grassland. Sedges include many wild marsh and grassland plants, and some cultivated ones such as water chestnut and papyrus sedge .

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grass

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  3. A lawn.
  4. Marijuana.
  5. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  6. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  7. Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  8. The season of fresh grass; spring.
  9. That which is transitory.

Verb

  1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
  3. To cover with grass or with turf.
  4. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  5. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
    to grass a fish


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