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
(v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place. |
Couch
(v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed |
Couch
(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer |
Couch
(v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. |
Couch
(v. t.) To conceal |
Couch
(v. t.) To arrange |
Couch
(v. t.) To put into some form of language |
Couch
(v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle |
Couch
(v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest |
Couch
(v. i.) To lie down for concealment |
Couch
(v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc. |
Couch
(v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep |
Couch
(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc. |
Couch
(v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting |
Couch
(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc. |
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. |
Double-quick
(a.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run |
Double-quick
(n.) Double-quick time, step, or march. |
Double-quick
(v. i. & t.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time. |
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. |
band aid
quick fix
quickie
quicky | hurried repair |
| quick march | marching at quick time |
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 |
| couch | a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment |
| couch | a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer |
| covered couch | a litter with a cover for privacy |
| 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 |
sofa
couch
lounge | an upholstered seat for more than one person |
studio couch
day bed | convertible consisting of an upholstered couch that can be converted into a double bed |
| quick | any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) |
mental quickness
quickness
quick-wittedness | intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay |
irascibility
short temper
spleen
quick temper | a feeling of resentful anger |
| quick bread | breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking |
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) |
| couch potato | an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television) |
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 |
quick study
sponge | someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily, she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge |
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 |
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 |
lemongrass
lemon grass | a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka |
goat grass
Aegilops triuncalis | European grass naturalized as a weed in North America, sharp-pointed seeds cause injury when eaten by livestock |