any of various plants of the grass family that are usually used for food, fodder, or grazing and as lawns
any grasslike plant of various families having similar uses
ground covered with grass; pasture land or lawn
horizontal lines of clutter on a radarscope caused by electronic noise signals
☆ Slang marijuana
Brit., Slang an informer; stool pigeon
adjective
designating a family (Poaceae, order Cyperales) of monocotyledonous plants with long, narrow leaves, jointed stems, flowers in spikelets, and seedlike fruit, including wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, sugar cane, bamboo, sorghum, and bluegrass
transitive verb
to put (an animal or animals) out to pasture or graze
to grow grass over; cover with grass
to lay (textiles, etc.) on the grass for bleaching by the sun
b. The members of the grass family considered as a group.
Any of various plants having slender leaves characteristic of the grass family.
An expanse of ground, such as a lawn, covered with grass or similar plants.
Grazing land; pasture.
Slang Marijuana.
Electronics Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
verbgrassed, grass·ing, grass·es verb, transitive
a. To cover with grass.
b. To grow grass on.
To feed (livestock) with grass.
verb, intransitive
To become covered with grass.
To graze.
(gräs), Günter Wilhelm Born 1927.
German writer whose novels, notably The Tin Drum (1959) and Dog Years (1963), concern the political and social climate of Germany during and after World War II. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for literature.