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. |
Cutting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut |
Cutting
(n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. |
Cutting
(n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant |
Cutting
(a.) Adapted to cut |
Cutting
(a.) Chilling |
Cutting
(a.) Severe |
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) |
Screw-cutting
(a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting |
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. |
| cost cutting | the act of cutting costs |
price cutting
price cut | cutting the price of merchandise to one lower than the usual or advertised price |
cut
cutting
cutting off | the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends, the barber gave him a good cut |
| cutting thinning | the act of diluting something, the cutting of whiskey with water, the thinning of paint with turpentine |
| cut cutting | the act of cutting something into parts, his cuts were skillful, his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess |
| cut cutting | the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge, his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels |
abscission
cutting off | the act of cutting something off |
ablation
extirpation
cutting out
excision | surgical removal of a body part or tissue |
| cut cutting | the division of a deck of cards before dealing, he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal, the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual |
| carving cutting | removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
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 |
chopping board
cutting board | a wooden board where meats or vegetables can be cut |
cutter
cutlery cutting tool | a cutting implement, a tool for cutting |
| cutting implement | a tool used for cutting or slicing |
| cutting room | a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts) |
| grass skirt | a skirt made of long blades of grass |
knife edge
cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
pot grass
green goddess
dope
weed
gage sess
sens
smoke skunk
locoweed
Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
vanguard
forefront
cutting edge | the position of greatest importance or advancement, the leading position in any movement or field, the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England, the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy |
clipping
newspaper clipping
press clipping
cutting
press cutting | an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine, he searched through piles of letters and clippings |
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) |
| cutting | a piece cut off from the main part of something |
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 |
| grass-leaved golden aster | a variety of golden aster |
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 |