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grasses
noun(grass)
herbage suitable or used for grazing animals
grasses
noun(grass)
any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts
grasses
noun(grass)
land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass
grasses
verb(grass)
to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates
grasses
verb(grass)
to cover with grass; especially : to seed to grass
grasses
verb(grass)
to produce grass
grasses
noun(grass)
a perennial tropical American grass (Paspalum notatum) used in the southern U.S. as a lawn grass
grasses
noun(grass)
a coarse annual panicled grass (Echinochloa crusgalli) that has flowers borne on only one side of the raceme and is nearly cosmopolitan as a weed in cultivated ground
grasses
noun(grass)
any of several tough strongly rooted grasses that grow on exposed sandy shores; especially : any of a genus (Ammophila) of rhizomatous perennials widely planted to bind sandy slopes
grasses
noun(grass)
any of several plants (genera Yucca, Nolina, or Xerophyllum) of the lily or agave families chiefly of the southern and western U.S. with foliage resembling coarse blades of grass
grasses
noun(grass)
any of a genus (Agrostis) of grasses including important chiefly perennial and rhizomatous pasture and lawn grasses with fine velvety or wiry herbage
grasses
noun(grass)
a creeping stoloniferous southern European grass (Cynodon dactylon) often used as a lawn and pasture grass
grasses
noun(grass)
any of a genus (Sisyrinchium) of New World herbs of the iris family having grasslike foliage and blue, yellow, or white flowers
grasses
noun(grass)
a low-growing perennial grass (Buchloƫ dactyloides) native to the Great Plains that has curly grayish-green leaves; also : grama

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