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- Dictionarygrass/ɡrɑːs/
noun
- 1. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop. Similar
- 2. a mainly herbaceous plant with jointed stems and spikes of small wind-pollinated flowers, predominant in grass.
verb
- 1. cover (an area of ground) with grass: "the railway tracks were mostly grassed over" Similar
- 2. inform the police of someone's criminal activities or plans: informal British "someone had grassed on the thieves" Similar Opposite
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a low, green plant that grows naturally over a lot of the earth's surface, having groups of very thin leaves that grow close together in large numbers: a blade of grass. cut the grass Support garden wildlife by cutting the grass less often.
Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid- Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now. [3] A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green.
The meaning of GRASS is herbage suitable or used for grazing animals. How to use grass in a sentence.
Any of a large family ( Gramineae or Poaceae ) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover.
A grass is someone who tells the police or other authorities about criminal activities that they know about. [British, informal, disapproval]
a common plant with narrow green leaves that grows close to the ground in gardens and fields: to mow / cut the grass. We lay on the grass in the sunshine. Fewer examples. a blade of grass. a grass stain. a clump of grass.
Definition of grass noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
