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. |
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. |
Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries |
Fern (adv.) Long ago. |
Fern (a.) Ancient |
Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
Forked (imp. & p. p.) of Fork |
Forked (a.) Formed into a forklike shape |
Forked (a.) Having a double meaning |
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. |
Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
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. |
Northern (a.) Of or pertaining to the north |
Northern (a.) In a direction toward the north |
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. |
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 |
parula warbler northern parula Parula americana | small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast, of eastern North America |
northern oriole Icterus galbula | a kind of New World oriole |
northern shrike Lanius borealis | a butcherbird of northern North America |
marsh hawk northern harrier hen harrier Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
grass frog Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
northern cricket frog Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
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 |
northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus | a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States |
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 |
American lobster Northern lobster Maine lobster Homarus americanus | lobster of Atlantic coast of America |
northern phalarope Lobipes lobatus | breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds, large flocks often seen far out at sea |
stormy petrel northern storm petrel Hydrobates pelagicus | sooty black petrel with white markings, of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
northern bog lemming Synaptomys borealis | of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska |
northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus | large flying squirrel, chiefly of Canada |
woolly mammoth northern mammoth Mammuthus primigenius | very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere |
northern snakehead | a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China, can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days, a threat to American populations of fish |
Australian bonytongue northern barramundi Scleropages jardinii | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
northern pike Esox lucius | voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere |
scup northern porgy northern scup Stenotomus chrysops | found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine, esteemed as a panfish |
northern whiting Menticirrhus saxatilis | whiting of the east coast of United States, closely resembles king whiting |
northern sea robin Prionotus carolinus | large searobin, found from Nova Scotia to Florida |
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 |
Northern | a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans |
Northern Spy | large lateipening apple with skin striped with yellow and red |
American lobster Northern lobster Maine lobster | flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas |
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) |
American Baptist Convention Northern Baptist Convention | an association of Northern Baptists |
Northern Alliance United Front | a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban |
northern hemisphere | the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator |
northern Europe | the northernmost countries of Europe |
Northern Territory | a territory in north central Australia |
Northern Marianas Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
United Kingdom UK U.K. Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Great Britain | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles, divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland, `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
Northern Ireland | a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland |
Belfast capital of Northern Ireland | capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland |
Zambia Republic of Zambia Northern Rhodesia | a republic in central Africa, formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in |
Northern Cross | a cluster of bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus |
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 |
Northern Baptist | a member of the American Baptist Convention |