grass

noun

1. 1.

   Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

2. 2.

   Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

3. 3.

   A police informer who implicates many people

4. 4.

   uncountableslang

   Marijuana.

5. 5.

   A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.

6. 6.

   countablebritishslang

   An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

verb

1. 1.

   Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

2. 2.

   transitive

   To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

3. 3.

   transitive or intransitiveslang

   To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

4. 4.

   transitive

   To cover with grass or with turf.

   “The owners decided to grass their property.”

5. 5.

   Feed with grass

6. 6.

   transitive

   To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• grass-leaved golden asternounCompound term

  A variety of golden aster.

• grass-of-parnassusnounCompound term

  Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup.

• grass oververbCompound term

  Cover with grass.

• grass parakeetnounCompound term

  Small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

• grass peanounCompound term

  European annual grown for forage.

• grass pinknounCompound term

  An orchid.

Related words

Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.

• grasslandnounRelated term

  Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life.

• grassyadjectiveRelated term

  Abounding in grass.