grass

English

/ɡɹɑːs/, [ɡɹ̠ɑːs], [ɡɹ̠äːs], /ɡɹæs/, [ɡɹ̠æs], [ɡɹ̠as]

noun
Definitions
  • (countable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  • (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  • (uncountable) A lawn.
  • (uncountable) Marijuana.
  • (countable) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  • (uncountable) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  • (uncountable) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  • The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
  • (obsolete) That which is transitory.
  • (countable) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
  • (mining) The surface of a mine.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gras (grass) inherited from Old English græs (grass) inherited from *gras (grass) inherited from Proto-Germanic *grasą (grass) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (grow, become green), *gʰreh₁- (grow, become green).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰreh₁-

Gloss

grow, become green

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