Definition of grass

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Grass (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single..

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Cheat :: Cheat (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess..
Quick :: Quick (n.) Quitch grass.
Para Grass :: Para grass () A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
Viz-cacha :: Viz-cacha (n.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha..
Fog :: Fog (v. t.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from..
Hair Grass :: Hair grass () A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia..
Knotgrass :: Knotgrass (n.) a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
Couch Grass :: Couch grass () See Quitch grass.
Standgale :: Standergrass (n.) A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long..
Whiteweed :: Whiteweed (n.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy..
Sheathing :: Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants..
Ochreated :: Ochreated (a.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass..
Penicillate :: Penicillate (a.) Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses..
Tussac Grass :: Tussac grass () Tussock grass.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Bent Grass :: Bent grass () Same as Bent, a kind of grass..
Herbaged :: Herbaged (a.) Covered with grass.
Grave :: Grave (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose..
Zea :: Zea (n.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.
Coleorhiza :: Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle..
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