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. |
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. |
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 star grass
() An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms. |
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 |
| 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 |
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) |
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 |
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 |
wheatgrass
wheat-grass | a grass of the genus Agropyron |
crested wheatgrass
crested wheat grass
fairway crested wheat grass
Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
dog grass couch grass
quackgrass
quack grass
quick grass
witch grass witchgrass Agropyron repens | European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes, naturalized in North America as a weed |
bent
bent grass
bent-grass | grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens |
velvet bent
velvet bent grass
brown bent
Rhode Island bent
dog bent
Agrostis canina | common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves |
cloud grass
Agrostis nebulosa | Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets |
foxtail
foxtail grass | grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes |
| broom grass | any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon, used in broom making |
tall oat grass
tall meadow grass
evergreen grass
false oat
French rye
Arrhenatherum elatius | coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat, found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows, introduced in North America for forage |
wild oat
wild oat grass
Avena fatua | common in meadows and pastures |
grama
grama grass
gramma
gramma grass | pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America |
buffalo grass
Buchloe dactyloides | short grass growing on dry plains of central United States (where buffalo roam) |
| reed grass | any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes, natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere |