Alfa grass (n.) A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa |
Arrow grass (n.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads. |
Bent grass () Same as Bent, a kind of grass. |
Bermuda grass () A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries |
Blue-eyed grass () a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. |
Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils |
Brome grass () A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat. |
Bunch grass () A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass. |
Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long |
Cotton (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. |
Cotton (n.) Cloth made of cotton. |
Cotton (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. |
Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously |
Cotton (v. i.) To unite |
Cotton (v. i.) To take a liking to |
Couch grass () See Quitch grass. |
Dog's-tail grass (n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait |
Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. |
Doub grass () Doob grass. |
Gama grass () A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive |
Grama grass () The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya. |
Grass (n.) Popularly: Herbage |
Grass (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. |
Grass (n.) The season of fresh grass |
Grass (n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory. |
Grass (v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf. |
Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. |
Grass (v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground |
Grass (v. i.) To produce grass. |
Grass-green (a.) Green with grass. |
Grass-green (a.) Of the color of grass |
Grass-grown (a.) Overgrown with grass |
Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. |
Grass tree () A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). |
Guatemala grass () See Teosinte. |
Hair grass () A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hariali grass () The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon |
Johnson grass () A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet. |
Lyme grass () A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius. |
Melic grass () A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance. |
Para grass () A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil. |
Quack grass () See Quitch grass. |
Quitch grass () A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. |
Randall grass () The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass. |
Ray grass () A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne) |
Scutch grass () A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix. |
Sea grass () Eelgrass. |
Sisal grass () Alt. of Sisal hemp |
Squitch grass () Quitch grass. |
Bacillus subtilis Bacillus globigii grass bacillus hay bacillus | a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter, some strains produce antibiotics |
vesper sparrow grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
grass frog Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
garter snake grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
viperine grass snake Natrix maura | a small harmless grass snake |
budgerigar budgereegah budgerygah budgie grass parakeet lovebird shell parakeet Melopsittacus undulatus | small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors |
cotton stainer | a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
corn earworm cotton bollworm tomato fruitworm tobacco budworm vetchworm Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus | large dark mouse of southeastern United States |
cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America |
cotton | fabric woven from cotton fibers |
cotton | thread made of cotton fibers |
cotton flannel Canton flannel | a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side |
cotton gin gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
grass skirt | a skirt made of long blades of grass |
pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
cotton candy spun sugar candyfloss | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
eatage forage pasture pasturage grass | bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle |
grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) |
divorcee grass widow | a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband |
grass widower divorced man | a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife |
snake snake in the grass | a deceitful or treacherous person |
supergrass grass | a police informer who implicates many people |
Grass Gunter Grass Gunter Wilhelm Grass | German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born ) |
cottage pink grass pink Dianthus plumarius | European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers |
alligator weed alligator grass Alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers, clogs waterways with dense floating masses |
winter cress St. Barbara's herb scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
scurvy grass common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis | a widely distributed Arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy, a concentrated source of vitamin C |
whitlow grass shadflower shad-flower Draba verna | annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules |
common garden cress garden pepper cress pepper grass pepperwort Lepidium sativum | annual herb used as salad green and garnish |
field pennycress French weed fanweed penny grass stinkweed mithridate mustard Thlaspi arvense | foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods, naturalized throughout North America |
groundsel tree groundsel bush consumption weed cotton-seed tree Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
grass-leaved golden aster | a variety of golden aster |
cotton rose cudweed filago | any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads |
cotton thistle woolly thistle Scotch thistle Onopordum acanthium Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers, naturalized in North America |
lavender cotton Santolina chamaecyparissus | branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers |
black salsify viper's grass scorzonera Scorzonera hispanica | perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots |
grass pink Calopogon pulchellum Calopogon tuberosum | an orchid |
Gramineae family Gramineae Graminaceae family Graminaceae Poaceae family Poaceae grass family | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals, bamboo, reeds, sugar cane |
grass | narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns, used as pasture for grazing animals, cut and dried as hay |
beach grass | tough grasses with strong roots that can grow on exposed sandy shores |
bunchgrass bunch grass | any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat, chiefly of western United States |
shortgrass short-grass | any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions, common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains |
sword grass | any of various grasses or sedges having sword-shaped leaves with sharp edges |
tallgrass tall-grass | any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture |