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. |
Club-rush
(n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush. |
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. |
Marsh
(n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water |
Marsh marigold
() A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip. |
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) |
Rush
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus. |
Rush
(n.) The merest trifle |
Rush
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste |
Rush
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation |
Rush
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence |
Rush
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error. |
Rush
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness |
Rush
(n.) Great activity with pressure |
haste
hurry
rush
rushing | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner, in his haste to leave he forgot his book |
| rush rushing | (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line, the linebackers were ready to stop a rush |
| gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
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 |
| marsh wren | a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes |
long-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
marsh harrier
Circus Aeruginosus | Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions |
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 |
| 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 |
gallinule
marsh hen water hen swamphen | any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
American coot
marsh hen mud hen
water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
marsh hare
swamp rabbit Sylvilagus palustris | a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina 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 |
rushlight
rush candle | a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick |
swamp buggy
marsh buggy | an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body |
| rush | a sudden burst of activity, come back after the rush |
rush
spate surge
upsurge | a sudden forceful flow |
boom bonanza
gold rush
gravy
godsend
manna from heaven
windfall
bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
bang
boot
charge
rush
flush
thrill
kick | the swift release of a store of affective force, they got a great bang out of it, what a boot!, he got a quick rush from injecting heroin, he does it for kicks |
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) |
marsh
marshland
fen
fenland | low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation, usually is a transition zone between land and water, thousands of acres of marshland, the fens of eastern England |
| salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
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 ) |
Marsh
Ngaio Marsh | New Zealand writer of detective stories (-) |
| Marsh Reginald Marsh | United States painter (-) |
Rush
Benjamin Rush | physician and American Revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence (-) |
marsh marigold
kingcup meadow bright
May blob
cowslip water dragon Caltha palustris | swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups |
blue jasmine
blue jessamine
curly clematis
marsh clematis
Clematis crispa | climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers |
Juncaceae
family Juncaceae
rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes |
| rush | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
bulrush bullrush common rush
soft rush
Juncus effusus | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America |
jointed rush
Juncus articulatus | rush of Australia |
toad rush
Juncus bufonius | low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground, nearly cosmopolitan |
hard rush
Juncus inflexus | tall rush of temperate regions |
salt rush
Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
slender rush
Juncus tenuis | tufted wiry rush of wide distribution |