Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GRASS
GRASS
Definitions of GRASS
- The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (mining) The surface of a mine.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
- A surname.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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