Definitions for grasses

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grasses grass

Spelling: [gras, grahs]

IPA: /græs, grɑs/

Grasses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in grasses (aegrsss).

Definitions for grasses

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:
5. Slang. marijuana.
6. grasses, stalks or sprays of grass:
7. the season of the new growth of grass.

Idioms

1. go to grass, to retire from one's occupation or profession:
2. let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action, progress, etc.; become slack in one's efforts.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with grass or turf.
2. to feed with growing grass; pasture.
3. to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching.

verb (used without object)

1. to feed on growing grass; graze.
2. to produce grass; become covered with grass.

Origin of grasses

before 900; Middle English gras, Old English græs; cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse, Gothic gras; akin to grow, green

Examples for grasses

Then there was a little girl on the grass with her legs spread.

The river was frozen, and the grass was white with hoar-frost.

Thus far, the most talked-about Green Friday hotspot is Denver dispensary the grass Station.

He sat with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, staring at the grass.

He ran and pulled some grass and proceeded to rub the Major down.

We sat on the grass, in the hot twilight, watching the fireworks burst in patriotic showers of light over Independence.

The car went into the grass hard and fast, and we ended up flipping eight times.

But in New York City, a metropolis with an abundance of concrete and very few fields of grass, a far more subtle display appears.

Robert was nothing loth to stay, and resumed his place on the grass.

And throwing himself on the grass, he hid his face against the dog and sobbed.