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. |
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. |
Lemon (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. |
Lemon (n.) The tree which bears lemons |
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. |
Sea lemon () Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body. |
Sisal grass () Alt. of Sisal hemp |
Squitch grass () Quitch grass. |
Timothy grass () A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes |
Tussac grass () Tussock grass. |
Twitch grass () See Quitch grass. |
Water lemon () The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis) |
Bacillus subtilis Bacillus globigii grass bacillus hay bacillus | a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter, some strains produce antibiotics |
lemon shark Negaprion brevirostris | common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa, dangerous |
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 |
winter flounder blackback flounder lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
lemon sole Microstomus kitt | European flatfish highly valued as food |
lemon sole Solea lascaris | small European sole |
English sole lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
grass skirt | a skirt made of long blades of grass |
lemon stinker | an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory |
lemon grove | a grove of lemon trees |
pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
gamboge lemon lemon yellow maize | a strong yellow color |
lemon | a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons |
lemon drop | a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon |
lemon peel | strips of lemon peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar |
lemon meringue pie | pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue |
lemon curd lemon cheese | a conserve with a thick consistency, made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar |
lemon peel lemon rind | the rind of a lemon |
lemon | yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh |
bell apple sweet cup water lemon yellow granadilla | the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle |
lemon sole English sole | highly valued almost pure white flesh |
lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
eatage forage pasture pasturage grass | bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle |
lemon zest | tiny bits of lemon peel |
lemon oil | fragrant yellow oil obtained from the lemon peel |
lemon balm | lemony leaves used for a tisane or in soups or fruit punches |
lemon extract | a flavoring made from (or imitating) lemons |
Meuniere butter lemon butter | clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley |
lemon juice | usually freshly squeezed juice of lemons |
bitter lemon | tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink |
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 |