STRAW

Straw

Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has many uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and basket-making. It is usually gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bundle of straw tightly bound with twine or wire. Bales may be square, rectangular, or round, depending on the type of baler used.

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straw

Noun

  1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
  2. Such dried stalks considered collectively.
  3. A drinking straw.
  4. a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
  5. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

Adjective

  1. Made of straw.
    straw hat
  2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.


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