grass synonyms

grass

n.

  1. Wild grasses include: Johnson grass, salt grass, blue grass, beach grass, bent grass, foxtail, sedge, rush, reed, buffalo grass, bulrush, sand-bur, couch grass, carpet grass, crab grass, crowfoot, deer grass, bunch grass, meadow grass, fescue, heath grass, joint grass, orchard grass, pampas grass, June grass, redtop, river grass, slough grass, ribbon grass, stink grass, sweet grass, tickle grass, brome, canary grass, cat-tail, bamboo, wild rice.

  2. Cultivated grasses include: cane, millet, oats, wheat, barley, maize, rye, broomcorn, timothy, kaffir corn, Milo maize, bent grass, Bermuda grass, fescue, Kentucky blue grass, rice, sesame, sorghum.

  3. Grassed area

    grassland, meadow, lawn, garden (British), turf, green, fairway, sward, greensward, pasture, prairie, bottom, bottomland, hayfield; see also field 1, yard 1.

  4. *A drug

    marijuana, Nicotanea glauca (Latin), hemp, cannabis, pot*, weed*, maryjane*, boo*; see also drug 2.

let the grass grow under one's feet*

waste time, be lazy, fail; see neglect 1.

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