meaning of grasses
1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
2. An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
3. The season of fresh grass; spring.
4. Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
5. To cover with grass or with turf.
6. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
7. To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
8. To produce grass.
9. An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.
10. A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
11. street names for marijuana
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