Definition of straw

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Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..

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Stramineous :: Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.
Strayed :: Strawy (a.) Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw..
Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn..
Dog's-tail 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; -- called also goldseed..
Thatch :: Thatch (n.) Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain..
Oaten :: Oaten (a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe..
Strawberry :: Straw (n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Fume :: Fume (v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room..
Windlestraw :: Windlestraw (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis..
Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A basket; esp., a straw provender basket..
Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ..
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
Matting :: Matting (v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc..
Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..
Native :: Native (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries..
Blite :: Blite (n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Cob :: Cob (n.) Clay mixed with straw.
Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
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