Grass (Noun)
Meaning 1
Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The kids ran through the soft grass in the backyard, laughing and playing tag.
- The farmer allowed his cows to graze on the lush green grass in the north pasture.
- Freshly cut grass arranged in neat bales made for a picturesque scene in the countryside.
- The golf course was meticulously manicured, with every blade of grass perfectly trimmed.
- A field of tall grass swayed gently in the breeze on a warm summer afternoon.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Meadow Grass
- Cockspur
- Phalaris Tuberosa
- Cenchrus Tribuloides
- Cynodon Dactylon
- Pennisetum Ruppelii
- Rush-grass
- Toetoe
- Paspalum Distichum
- Drop-seed
- Bahama Grass
- Cocksfoot
- Aegilops Triuncalis
- Pennisetum Setaceum
- Bent-grass
- Arrhenatherum Elatius
- Bur Grass
- Buffalo Grass
- Kweek
- Field Sandbur
- Lemon Grass
- Bromegrass
- Toe Toe
- Meadow Fescue
- Crab Grass
- Paspalum Notatum
- Saccharum Munja
- Herd's Grass
- Wheat-grass
- Holcus Lanatus
- Cortaderia Selloana
- Feathertop Grass
- Phalaris Aquatica
- Doob
- Sheep's Fescue
- Tall Meadow Grass
- Scutch Grass
- False Oat
- Pennistum Villosum
- Fescue Grass
- Dallis Grass
- Cord Grass
- Bunch Grass
- Paspalum
- Short-grass
- Ryegrass
- Tall-grass
- French Rye
- Devil Grass
- Cynodon Plectostachyum
- Munja
- Stenotaphrum Secundatum
- Sandspur
- Phleum Pratense
- Andropogon Gerardii
- Blue Grass
- Gramma Grass
- Holcus Mollis
- Festuca Ovina
- Evergreen Grass
- Muhlenbergia Schreberi
- Lady's Laces
- Saccharum Bengalense
- Yorkshire Fog
- Nimble Will
- Gardener's Garters
- Toowomba Canary Grass
- Bay Grass
- Birdseed Grass
- Dactylis Glomerata
- Cortaderia Richardii
- Star Grass
- Paspalum Dilatatum
- Gramma
- Phalaris Canariensis
- Harding Grass
- Arundo Richardii
- Ribbon Grass
- Buchloe Dactyloides
- Finger Grass
- Phalaris Arundinacea
- Festuca Elatior
- Bent Grass
- Grama Grass
- Blue Stem
- Andropogon Furcatus
- Cereal Grass
Related Words
Meaning 3
Street names for marijuana.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 4
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Günter Grass often walked through the fields of tall grass that surrounded his childhood home in Danzig.
- The novelist Günter Grass described the green grass of the Kashubian countryside as a symbol of peace and tranquility in his works.
- As Günter Grass strolled through the village, he felt the soft blades of grass beneath his feet, a comforting sensation.
- Günter Grass's love of nature was reflected in his descriptions of the rolling hills and swaying grass of the Polish countryside.
- In his play "The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising", Günter Grass used a character walking through a field of grass as a metaphor for the search for identity.
Synonyms
Meaning 5
A police informer who implicates many people.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The authorities relied on the grass to identify key players in the organized crime ring.
- Known as a notorious grass, he was shunned by the community for his repeated betrayals.
- The police had a grass on the inside who provided crucial evidence to take down the gang.
- After being caught, the young offender decided to become a grass to reduce his sentence.
- The grass in the neighborhood had been responsible for sending many local youth to prison.