Word Finder - grass

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Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

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Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

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A lawn.

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Marijuana.

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An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

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What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a 'grass.

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Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

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Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

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The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

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That which is transitory.

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(folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".

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The surface of a mine.

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To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

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To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

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To cover with grass or with turf.

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To feed with grass.

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To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

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To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

She made grass grow.

He brushed some grass from her back.

I can make grass grow!

No, it's daylight and I can see all the squiggly little things in the grass just fine.

Grass tickled her feet, and she glanced down at the swath of green beneath her.

The grass was as green as though it was springtime, and the golden ears of corn gathered together in heaps in the great fields looked very pretty.

We would talk about the birds and flowers and grass and Jumbo and Pearl.

He watched the wolf disappear into the tall grass.

He plucked a strand of grass and stuck it in his mouth.

Grass had sprung up from boulders she touched, and she'd felt truly a part of her world for once in her life.

It settled into the grass near the prisoner's feet.

She'd thought the planet completely dead, but there was a bright patch of green grass beneath her and the pod.

Before he gave his Immortal soul to death, he.d never noticed how sweet the air was or how the grass sang as the wind whipped through it.

Even the ground was beginning to green with new shoots of grass.

She took a hacking swing at the grass.

This arrangement is adopted in order to prevent excessive luxuriance in the grass.

The latter prey on the various kinds of antelopes which swarm on the grass lands.

They live in round grass huts with conical roofs.

In the ensuing darkness, red and blue lights flashed his shadow on the wet grass.

The adults ignored them, grazing contentedly on the deep grass.

He made no bones about the fact that my ass is grass and he's a lawn mower.

Alex caught Carmen and they both tumbled to the soft grass.

She leaned against a wall, overlooking a stretch of rocky terrain punctuated with patches of yellow-green grass.

The planet's energy warmed her, ran through her and into him, and grass grew beneath her feet.

Furious, she threw them and turned to find two of the beings kneeling by the grass, touching them.

With side to side swings, he quickly cut a small area of grass.

Green crops, such as turnips, clover and rye grass, began to be alternated with grain crops, whence the name alternate husbandry.

Nevertheless, the decade closed more hopefully than it opened, and found farmers taking a keener interest in grass land, in live stock and in dairying.

The remains, which include not only the skeleton and skin, but likewise the droppings, were found buried in grass which appears to have been chopped up by man, and it thus seems not only evident that these ground-sloths dwelt in the cave, but that there is a considerable probability of their having been kept there in a semi-domesticated state by the early human inhabitants of Patagonia.

As the mountains of Valencia and Catalonia effectually bar out the fertilizing moisture of the sea-winds, much of the province is a sheer wilderness, stony, ash-coloured, scarred with dry watercourses, and destitute of any vegetation except thin grass and heaths.

West of the dividing crest they are forest clad; east thereof their stony grimness is but slightly softened by growths of scrub and tussock grass.

The swamps covered with flax and giant bulrushes were often redeemed to the eye by sheets of golden-plumed toe-toe, a kind of pampas grass.

Over the greater part of the plains little now grows save veld, the coarse long grass of South Africa.

The Great Plains are covered for the most part only with bunch grass which grows in tufts, leaving the ground visible between, and except in May and June presents a yellow and withered appearance.

The rest is open rice-land, alternating with great stretches of grass, reed jungle and bamboo scrub, much of which is under water for quite three months of the year.

The vegetation consists almost entirely of scrubby bushes of several varieties, including tamarisks and wild briers, of reeds (kamish), and of grass on the yaylaks (pasture-grounds) of the middle ranges.

The three of them walked abreast along a narrow road consisting of no more than two bare strips of dirt in the grass.

There are probably a half dozen of them waiting out there in the grass.

There was no shadow or footprints even though I seemed to be standing on grass.

The machete had sliced through his collarbone, and blood spurted from the wound into the courtyard.s grass.

She set about wandering the halls once more, pausing to look out of large windows onto expanses of grass.

She was too hot to cry, and she curled up on the grass.

She motioned to the small patch of grass.

While not strictly a meat-and-potatoes guy, he felt more comfortable with a meal he could recognize, like the week­day special at Uncle Sally's Galley, not something tiny and exotic, wrapped in dainty strands of imported grass.

Ed perked his ears forward and snorted at something in the tall grass.

The seeds are harvested from various grasses, especially from Aristida oligantha, a species known as " ant rice," which often grows in quantity close to the site selected for the nest, but the statement that the ants deliberately sow this grass is an error, due, according to Wheeler, to the sprouting of germinating seeds.

The drought of 1898 was interrupted by copious rains in June, and these falling on a warm soil led to a rapid growth of grass and, as measured by yield per acre, an exceedingly heavy crop of hay.

The most notable feature in connexion with the cropping of the land of the United Kingdom between 1875 and 1905 was the lessened cultivation of the cereal crops associated with an expansion in the area of grass land.

Under the old Norfolk or four-course rotation (roots, barley, clover, wheat) land thus seeded with clover or grass seeds was intended to be ploughed up at the end of a year.

Labour difficulties, low prices of produce, bad seasons and similar causes provided inducements for leaving the land in grass for two years, or over three years or more, before breaking it up for wheat.