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Definition of grass in English: grassnounɡrɑːsɡræs 1mass noun Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop. Example sentencesExamples - The lawn was never mown; grass grew high around the front door steps.
- Soon after the breakfast, she goes back to her enclosure where she is provided with green grass, fodder and occasionally sugarcane.
- As all who have charge of a lawn well know, grass is encouraged to grow by being cut.
- There were animals twittering and chirping and plants growing and grass blowing in the breeze.
- Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish.
- People are selling off household assets and livestock in order to survive, and are eating wild plants and grass seeds.
- But it was not too hard to do this at this time of year when wild grass grew abundantly in the fields.
- The grass has grown, the hawthorn hedge is fully in leaf, different plants are in bloom and new ones are sprouting, apple and pear trees are in blossom.
- There was little plant life to be seen save for the dark green grass scattered about the lawn.
- There are all sorts of ways to get grass or crops to grow.
- The only noise that came to me was from the soles of my boots brushing against the wild grass growing on the weathered road.
- Trees, plants and grass are able to grow, purifying the air and making a better environment for our children.
- Then, suddenly, the colours vanished, to be unexpectedly replaced with a field of short, green grass.
- The farmer of the field behind us is growing a crop of grass for seed.
- The forest floor was covered with fallen leaves and needles, and had patches of short grass in a few places.
- They feed on more than 100 species of plants, including grass, leaves, twigs and bark.
- The ground was mostly barren with just short grass, where no vegetation dared to grow.
- They also eat certain types of grass and may eat wild fruits like berries if these grow in their natural habitat.
- She turned to see him waving at her in the midst of a field of tall, brown and green grass and brightly colored wild flowers.
- The area is dirty, with wild grass growing on the land which is surrounded by a thick brick wall.
Synonyms turf, greenery, green, sod lawn, field, pasture, meadow, grassland, grasslands blades of grass South African veld literary sward, mead, lea - 1.1 Ground covered with grass.
Example sentencesExamples - From each point of contact, rolling wheel tracks through the grass on the verge identify the subsequent course of travel.
- Her evidence was that as they walked in the park, the appellant steered her off the footpath onto the grass.
- After a brief conversation with them they left the house and discovered the red bag sitting on the grass next to the driveway.
- Christmas lights decorated every house with cheery lights and lit up Santas, reindeers frolicking on the bright green grass.
- What a lovely, fast, practically empty stretch of motorway that is - so new the embankments to either side aren't yet covered by grass.
- Neither of them wore shoes on the soft, springy, green grass.
- When we were children if you sat on the grass the police would come and tell you to move.
- I went to have a look and I saw him lying on the grass and… that's it.
- I walked over the long green grass to one of the recumbent stones next to the gate of the field and stood on top of it.
- Some ducks, such as mallard and pintail, will nest in grass and lush ground cover up to a kilometre or more away from the water body.
- Feeling his strength renewed he cast aside his staff and walked steadily upon lush, green grass.
- The bay window looked out onto the street, a wide stretch of paved road, pocked with grass and lined by a dozen more houses, spaced out by tens of feet of lush grass and shrubbery.
- The van started shifting towards the right, slowly pushing Pete into the curb, leaving him nowhere to go except on the grass.
- Charlie spent many hours lying on the grass or patrolling atop the wall.
- He noticed two paper envelopes on the floor and found shoe marks on the grass at the rear of the building.
- Include some bare ground rather than all grass, ground cover, or mulch.
- Landon put the sleeping bag down on the grass and crawled inside.
- An ambulance was called which took approximately 20 minutes to arrive, during which time I remained lying on the grass.
- 1.2 Pasture land.
the farms were mostly given over to grass Example sentencesExamples - The land is all in grass and there is part of an old farmhouse and outoffices on it, as well as good road frontage.
- All the land is under grass and the agent suggests there is room for an extension to the existing property, subject to planning permission.
- Most of the land is under grass at the moment and carries a flock of 265 ewes and a small Aberdeen Angus herd, as well as commercial cattle for fattening.
- He runs a herd of 70 Friesian-Holstein dairy cattle on his 200-acre farm where all but 50 acres of the land is in grass.
- Temporary alfalfa pasture can reduce grazing pressure on grass pastures and provide better quality forage.
2A mainly herbaceous plant with jointed stems and spikes of small wind-pollinated flowers, predominant in grass. Grasses belong to the large family Gramineae (or Poaceae; the grass family), and form the dominant vegetation of many areas of the world. The possession of a growing point that is mainly at ground level makes grasses suitable as the food of many grazing animals, and for use in lawns and playing fields Example sentencesExamples - The course is lined with beautiful oak trees, native grasses and plants.
- We have planted 30 different grasses, herbs and clovers, and our animals wander all around the farm to spread life into the soil.
- In subsequent years, plant additional perennials and grasses to fill gaps and replace annuals.
- Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
- We rarely think of grasses as edging plants, but I have two favorites that fill that role nicely.
- The rest of the property is planted with native grasses, including blue grama and buffalo grass.
- Plants that were once common - mainly, grasses and sedges - had become even more common.
- The most common cool-season grasses are orchard grass, smooth brome, meadow brome and creeping foxtail.
- The plants sprouting now include grasses, clovers, dandelions, several types of thistle, mustards, and small composites.
- Bulbs can be planted in turf grasses which are about a year-and-a-half mature, with no damage to the roots.
- Food is mainly roots, leaves, stems and shoots of grasses, reeds and sedges.
- The roofs are planted with a variety of native prairie grasses and flowers and have become habitat for birds and ground squirrels.
- Native or closely related species of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants and grasses are positioned close to the perimeter.
- Constant watering encourages grassy weeds like foxtail and perennial grasses like bluegrass to invade alfalfa.
- In the Midwest, that might mean planting prairie grasses and flowers along with - or even instead of - an English garden.
- It is wind-born pollen from plants that have inconspicuous flowers like wild grasses or ragweed that are the major causes of respiratory allergy.
- The best time for planting grasses is in the spring or fall although in northern regions that don't get too hot in the summer this season works as well.
- The hardy grasses such as fine fescue and Kentucky bluegrass grow well here, but only with supplemental irrigation.
- In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation.
- The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
3informal mass noun Cannabis. Example sentencesExamples - When I go to Switzerland or Holland I can buy grass from coffee shops.
- Often buying grass would put you into much closer proximity to someone who might sell something harder.
- She told of how Sam had harassed one employee so bad that he had driven him to smoke grass to calm his nerves.
- Terms from years ago, such as pot, herb, grass, weed, Mary Jane and reefer, are still used.
- The shanty bands sing about cocaine, grass, booze, sex and football fandom.
- The principal benefit of smoking grass through a bong is that the smoke is cooled and several carcinogens are removed without removing the active ingredients.
- I smoke a heroic amount of hash / grass as it is, so that's not the problem!
- And then there's Pushers' Street, where hash and grass are set out on open stalls for sale.
- Marijuana (grass, pot, weed) is the common name for a crude drug made from the plant Cannabis sativa.
- It comes as a solid dark lump or as leaves, called resin and grass respectively.
- So I just smoked bagfuls of grass, stared at the sea, and debated whether to order a pineapple pancake for lunch or to take my chances with the fish.
- Ron Mann's film Grass chronicles the federal government's extensive and costly war on marijuana.
- One member of the family recalls that all they did was ‘smoke grass, drop acid and make love as much as possible’.
- Then the year after that I smoked some grass with him in his hotel room - it was fantastic synchronicity - true greatness.
- According to some sources there is a very low risk of developing cancer or bronchitis from smoking pure grass joints.
- I would like to start with my personal experience with grass and Cannabis.
- I have been smoking grass for almost 25 years, starting in my twenties.
- I decide to break them in gently with the weakest joint I've ever rolled, made from the least powerful grass the coffee shop will sell.
- The last drug I took was a mix of marijuana in the forms of resin and grass.
Synonyms cannabis, marijuana, hashish, bhang, hemp, kef, kif, charas, ganja, sinsemilla 4British informal A police informer. Example sentencesExamples - It's based on an old tramp, he is a total down and out drunk, he's a grass and soon finds out that his life is going to end in a fire.
- He then asked who the drug dealer was and when he found out he said, 'I wouldn't do it for him anyway because he's a grass and his supplier's a grass."
Synonyms informer, mole, stool pigeon informal snitch, snout, stoolie, whistle-blower, snake in the grass, supergrass, rat, scab, nose British informal nark North American informal fink
verbɡrɑːsɡræs [with object]1Cover (an area of ground) with grass. the railway tracks were mostly grassed over Example sentencesExamples - This paid for a new track and the upgrading of changing and viewing facilities, CCTV and improvements to the infield grassed area.
- That area is currently grassed with no proper footway.
- He said the cash would be better spent on providing parking and repairing damaged verges and grassed areas.
- With excellent indoor/outdoor flow, the patio and grassed areas are idyllic and on fine, cold days, outdoor heaters take the chill out of al fresco relaxation.
- Options which are being considered include upgrading the existing grassed playing field which is used for sports, science and other projects at the school or replacing that facility with an all-weather football pitch.
- It was grassed over in 1987 and parts of it were developed to include the travellers' caravan amenity site.
- It is to be replaced with a commemorative grassed area where occasional services will be held.
- It is set in pleasant parkland with good tree cover and grassed areas running along the riverbank.
- The spokesman said: ‘If negotiations are successful all this will be achieved without significant loss of existing grassed areas.’
- So most of the rubble was quickly shifted before the area was grassed over and turned into a small park near the water's edge.
- The car park area should be grassed over so it becomes integrated with the whole space in front of the Castle Museum and surrounding Clifford's Tower.
- Stadiums surround most of the field, although there is a small grassed area that is very popular with spectators.
- The plans were then amended to exclude the original proposals for a synthetic hockey pitch and floodlighting and add a new bowling green and retention of existing grassed areas.
- A small number of children gathered outside the school last night, while inside the gates on a small grassed area were four bunches of flowers.
- They were very impressed by the well cut grassed areas, the stone flower beds at the seafront, and the floral features at a number of private and business premises.
- She suggested that the Castle car park be grassed over and the foundations of the Victorian prison walls beneath exposed, as had been done with the remains of St Mary's Abbey.
- The court, which is crossed by a covered walkway linking the two buildings, has been grassed over to provide a quiet area for pupils and staff.
- The new facility includes climbing equipment, a sand tray, wobble board, storage shed and grassed area.
- At least our school is privileged enough to have a grassed rugby field.
- After the Easter Rising of 1916 much of the rubble of the city was piled into one corner of the ground and grassed over to become the beloved terrace area that still survives and bears the name Hill 16.
Synonyms cover with grass, grass over, turf, lay grass on - 1.1US Feed (livestock) on grass.
Example sentencesExamples - There are 565 Highland cattle grassed nine months.
- Given the high cost of concentrates this winter the early turnout of cows to grass this spring is likely to be an important aim on many farms.
- The treatments involved early turnout of cows to grass for 2 h per day at two residual sward heights and two silage allowances, plus a control treatment, in a randomized block design.
- The it got more flat, and some parts were cultivated, but most were open areas where cattle were grassing.
- Cows grassed, birds sang and everything was a bliss.
- Getting this animal out to grass reduces daily feed costs in half and should achieve over 1kg daily liveweight gain.
2British informal Inform the police of someone's criminal activities or plans. no object someone had grassed on the thieves with object she threatened to grass me up Example sentencesExamples - They give him free weed and they may commence in their business without him grassing them up.
- It might sound harsh to some, but police say grassing on a drinker-driver could save lives.
- Yes the person who had grassed us to the Police never thought they would get one of their own.
- The man who asked not to be identified was so fed up with his estate being used as a racetrack that he grassed the offenders up to police.
- Ross is consumed by his need to discover who grassed about his bank robbery, and had him locked up for eight years.
- Convicted criminals will be urged to grass on their fellow inmates by a new range of cutlery carrying the number of the Crimestoppers scheme.
- You'd still have to grass up whoever made the posting, though.
- Anyone even thought to be left wing was subpoenaed, defamed and then blacklisted by the studio bosses if they refused to grass on their friends.
- But then their class aren't expected to grass each other up.
- An industry snitch has pocketed £4,000 after grassing on a Scottish IT company for using pirated software.
- Likewise, he has a one in four chance, if he grasses, of going free, but a one in two chance of avoiding the ten year sentence, because if both prisoners talk the sentence is only five years.
- Amazingly though, after grassing in the boys who carried out the attack, they are only suspended, the police heard nothing about it and neither did Daniel's parents.
- We mocked a Net-based plan to get people to grass up their neighbours whom they suspected of welfare fraud
- To find out who grassed on him read the rest of the review.
- To grass on a pusher ring police or contact Crimestoppers.
- You need accurate, up-to-date intelligence and friends on the ground, not a lot of terrified taxi drivers and unemployed bachelors confessing to ludicrous schemes and grassing out their neighbors to save themselves.
- Here's what the person who informed on the online company said about grassing up their employer.
- Her ambition and drive are very much a part of her everyday work - she has no qualms about grassing on a colleague if it gets her out of trouble.
- I did a robbery and I got grassed up off my own brother and got four years.
- Somebody must be proud of having grassed on her.
Synonyms inform, tell give away, betray, denounce, sell out, be a Judas to informal split, blow the whistle, rat, peach, squeal, squeak, do the dirty, grass up, tell tales about, spill the beans about, stitch up, sell down the river British informal sneak, shop North American informal drop a/the dime, finger, rat out, job Australian/New Zealand informal dob, pimp, pool, shelf, put someone's pot on, point the bone at Northern Irish & Scottish informal tout archaic delate 3Catch and bring (a fish) to the riverbank. anglers grassed 294 trout Example sentencesExamples - But home is where the heart is, and the season will not be complete until I have grassed a salmon by a field that I can view from my window.
4Rugby Australian Rules Football
Knock (someone) down. Example sentencesExamples - The big man has been in the thick of the action during the ill-tempered series and his chief tormentor grassed him on two, the slip-up proving costly for the home side.
Phrases the mare will be out at grass during the day Example sentencesExamples - The early introduction of a balanced buffer feed will reduce liveweight loss at grass and optimise cow yield and fertility,’ says Brian.
- As animals face into another summer at grass, beef and dairy farmers have been urged to take effective precautions against killer animal diseases.
- Beef animals at grass in the summer months have little requirement for supplementary feed.
- It is advisable to dose all cattle coming off their first season at grass with a drug that is effective against type II stomach worms.
- They will be at grass until at least November 1, but mid-November would be the limit of the grazing season.
- On average, grass was included in the cows' diet for 277 days in 1999, with cows at grass by day from February 18th.
- On average suckler cows spent 228 days at grass, weanlings 239 days and yearling cattle 201 days.
- Cattle weighings have shown gains of 0.3 to 0.6 kg/day and in the final few weeks at grass there may be no gain at all.
- Sometimes, yearling cattle in their second season at grass will benefit from worm dosing if they are subjected to a strong challenge, if their immunity did not develop or is impaired by disease, dietary deficiencies or poor nutrition.
- ‘The idea is to use the pad as a winter lying area and the old cubicles to house any cows which calve before the herd is out at grass at night,’ Jack explained.
the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence) proverb Other people's lives or situations always seem better than your own. Example sentencesExamples - There is an old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Just do your best.
- I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
not let the grass grow under one's feet Not delay in acting or taking an opportunity. Example sentencesExamples - Catherine proved that she doesn't let the grass grow under her feet as she won the Northern Women's Championship.
- Want to promote your business? Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
- The editor said: ‘Grans don't let the grass grow under their feet.
- She still doesn't let the grass grow under her feet. She still drives, she travels by herself, she still tries to take care of everyone.
- The Tidy Towns season is upon us, so don't let the grass grow under your feet.
1Put (an animal) out to graze. Example sentencesExamples - But as summer came, the remaining cows in the herd were put out to grass and the sickness stopped.
- Highland cattle, rescued from the BSE cull and put out to grass, graze contentedly at the water's edge close to the croquet lawn.
- Calves 3-10 months old were put out to grass in the daytime during the summer.
- So one by one, with much mooing, many holy cows were put out to grass.
- Cattle are put out to grass in the spring and only brought in for the winter, or during bad weather, to light, airy sheds.
- Should you be concerned for Champion's health, relax: he has been put out to grass, now enjoying retirement at home in Ray's stables at Huntington.
- 1.1informal Force (someone) to retire.
Example sentencesExamples - Earlier working-class sympathies had long since dropped away, leaving a plodding but dogged politician whom Hughes put out to grass in 1921.
- Here workers have been put out to grass earlier and earlier, with many employers using early retirement rather than redundancy to achieve enforced cuts in staff numbers.
- She was most definitely not too old and not ready to be put out to grass just yet.
- Barely a decade ago the country seemed to be awash with 50-odd-year-olds who'd been put out to grass (on a golf course perhaps) with generous pension settlements.
- Neil, who has now joined us, smiles benevolently and explains he was put out to grass while Christine spent the next five years sowing her wild oats in Westminster.
- It is rumoured that he will be put out to grass after the next election.
- At 56, he's fast approaching South Africa's retirement age of 60, and doesn't feel ready to be put out to grass just yet.
- The big Scot will be anxious to prove that, even after his infamous 84, he need not be put out to grass.
- I was going to stay on a bit longer but there comes a time when you are put out to grass.
- Many of the member states habitually nominate commissioners to reward politicians who for one reason or another must be put out to grass.
Synonyms pension off, force to retire, force to give up work
Derivatives adjective I was ten when we moved to the new house, built from scratch and stark in a grassless yard. Example sentencesExamples - The wind cut sharp over the cracked, coarse and grassless landscape without mercy.
- The other half shows a flat and grassless prairie, gnawed clean by a recent plague of grasshoppers.
- At present it is just a grassless mound of earth that is no use to anybody.
- Their tents, each holding around 20 men sleeping in cots, are pitched on a grassless field which has been turned to mud by rainstorms this week.
adjective It has single blooms in shades like sparkling white, yellow or pink, rising over the shining grass-like leaves not more than 10 cm to 15 cm high. Example sentencesExamples - Much to my surprise, I saw tufts of bright green grass-like plants here and there emerging from the cold soil.
- Their root-like structures, which are buried just beneath the sandy bottom, can sprout new grass-like leaves.
- This plant has yellowish green, grass-like leaves, and its fertile stems may reach three feet or more in height and produce many yellow flowers.
- It produces rich green leaves, arching and grass-like and very graceful in appearance.
Origin Old English græs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gras, German Gras, also ultimately to green and grow. The Old English word grass is descended from the same root word as both green and grow (Old English). According to the well-known saying, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, a sentiment echoed in the works of the Roman poet Ovid: ‘The harvest is always more fruitful in another man's fields.’ A woman whose husband is often away for long periods can be referred to as a grass widow. In the early 16th century, though, this was a term for an unmarried woman with a child, probably from the idea of the couple having lain on the grass together instead of in bed. People have been smoking grass, or cannabis, since the 1940s, originally in the USA. The word has meant ‘an informer’, or ‘to inform’ since the decade before that. In this sense it is probably short for grasshopper, rhyming slang for shopper, a person who ‘shops’ someone. Graze (Middle English) is from Old English grasian ‘eat grass’. See also nark
Rhymes brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, farce, glass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, Madras, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face Definition of grass in US English: grassnounɡræsɡras 1Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop. Example sentencesExamples - She turned to see him waving at her in the midst of a field of tall, brown and green grass and brightly colored wild flowers.
- But it was not too hard to do this at this time of year when wild grass grew abundantly in the fields.
- There was little plant life to be seen save for the dark green grass scattered about the lawn.
- The forest floor was covered with fallen leaves and needles, and had patches of short grass in a few places.
- As all who have charge of a lawn well know, grass is encouraged to grow by being cut.
- The farmer of the field behind us is growing a crop of grass for seed.
- The grass has grown, the hawthorn hedge is fully in leaf, different plants are in bloom and new ones are sprouting, apple and pear trees are in blossom.
- Trees, plants and grass are able to grow, purifying the air and making a better environment for our children.
- People are selling off household assets and livestock in order to survive, and are eating wild plants and grass seeds.
- Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish.
- They feed on more than 100 species of plants, including grass, leaves, twigs and bark.
- The ground was mostly barren with just short grass, where no vegetation dared to grow.
- The area is dirty, with wild grass growing on the land which is surrounded by a thick brick wall.
- There are all sorts of ways to get grass or crops to grow.
- The lawn was never mown; grass grew high around the front door steps.
- There were animals twittering and chirping and plants growing and grass blowing in the breeze.
- They also eat certain types of grass and may eat wild fruits like berries if these grow in their natural habitat.
- The only noise that came to me was from the soles of my boots brushing against the wild grass growing on the weathered road.
- Then, suddenly, the colours vanished, to be unexpectedly replaced with a field of short, green grass.
- Soon after the breakfast, she goes back to her enclosure where she is provided with green grass, fodder and occasionally sugarcane.
Synonyms turf, greenery, green, sod - 1.1 Ground covered with grass.
Example sentencesExamples - Include some bare ground rather than all grass, ground cover, or mulch.
- Charlie spent many hours lying on the grass or patrolling atop the wall.
- The van started shifting towards the right, slowly pushing Pete into the curb, leaving him nowhere to go except on the grass.
- Feeling his strength renewed he cast aside his staff and walked steadily upon lush, green grass.
- Some ducks, such as mallard and pintail, will nest in grass and lush ground cover up to a kilometre or more away from the water body.
- Christmas lights decorated every house with cheery lights and lit up Santas, reindeers frolicking on the bright green grass.
- Her evidence was that as they walked in the park, the appellant steered her off the footpath onto the grass.
- An ambulance was called which took approximately 20 minutes to arrive, during which time I remained lying on the grass.
- Neither of them wore shoes on the soft, springy, green grass.
- When we were children if you sat on the grass the police would come and tell you to move.
- I walked over the long green grass to one of the recumbent stones next to the gate of the field and stood on top of it.
- I went to have a look and I saw him lying on the grass and… that's it.
- The bay window looked out onto the street, a wide stretch of paved road, pocked with grass and lined by a dozen more houses, spaced out by tens of feet of lush grass and shrubbery.
- What a lovely, fast, practically empty stretch of motorway that is - so new the embankments to either side aren't yet covered by grass.
- After a brief conversation with them they left the house and discovered the red bag sitting on the grass next to the driveway.
- From each point of contact, rolling wheel tracks through the grass on the verge identify the subsequent course of travel.
- He noticed two paper envelopes on the floor and found shoe marks on the grass at the rear of the building.
- Landon put the sleeping bag down on the grass and crawled inside.
- 1.2 Pastureland.
the farms were mostly given over to grass Example sentencesExamples - Most of the land is under grass at the moment and carries a flock of 265 ewes and a small Aberdeen Angus herd, as well as commercial cattle for fattening.
- Temporary alfalfa pasture can reduce grazing pressure on grass pastures and provide better quality forage.
- He runs a herd of 70 Friesian-Holstein dairy cattle on his 200-acre farm where all but 50 acres of the land is in grass.
- The land is all in grass and there is part of an old farmhouse and outoffices on it, as well as good road frontage.
- All the land is under grass and the agent suggests there is room for an extension to the existing property, subject to planning permission.
2The mainly herbaceous plant that constitutes grass, which has jointed stems and spikes of small, wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses belong to the large family Gramineae (or Poaceae; the grass family), and form the dominant vegetation of many areas of the world. The possession of a growing point that is mainly at ground level makes grasses suitable as the food of many grazing animals, and for use in lawns and playing fields Example sentencesExamples - In subsequent years, plant additional perennials and grasses to fill gaps and replace annuals.
- We have planted 30 different grasses, herbs and clovers, and our animals wander all around the farm to spread life into the soil.
- It is wind-born pollen from plants that have inconspicuous flowers like wild grasses or ragweed that are the major causes of respiratory allergy.
- Plants that were once common - mainly, grasses and sedges - had become even more common.
- The most common cool-season grasses are orchard grass, smooth brome, meadow brome and creeping foxtail.
- The best time for planting grasses is in the spring or fall although in northern regions that don't get too hot in the summer this season works as well.
- Bulbs can be planted in turf grasses which are about a year-and-a-half mature, with no damage to the roots.
- Food is mainly roots, leaves, stems and shoots of grasses, reeds and sedges.
- The hardy grasses such as fine fescue and Kentucky bluegrass grow well here, but only with supplemental irrigation.
- We rarely think of grasses as edging plants, but I have two favorites that fill that role nicely.
- The rest of the property is planted with native grasses, including blue grama and buffalo grass.
- The course is lined with beautiful oak trees, native grasses and plants.
- Native or closely related species of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants and grasses are positioned close to the perimeter.
- The roofs are planted with a variety of native prairie grasses and flowers and have become habitat for birds and ground squirrels.
- The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
- The plants sprouting now include grasses, clovers, dandelions, several types of thistle, mustards, and small composites.
- In summer months they eat cacti, sagebrush, mesquite, alfalfa, clover, other grasses, and herbaceous vegetation.
- In the Midwest, that might mean planting prairie grasses and flowers along with - or even instead of - an English garden.
- Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
- Constant watering encourages grassy weeds like foxtail and perennial grasses like bluegrass to invade alfalfa.
3informal Marijuana. Example sentencesExamples - The shanty bands sing about cocaine, grass, booze, sex and football fandom.
- So I just smoked bagfuls of grass, stared at the sea, and debated whether to order a pineapple pancake for lunch or to take my chances with the fish.
- I smoke a heroic amount of hash / grass as it is, so that's not the problem!
- Then the year after that I smoked some grass with him in his hotel room - it was fantastic synchronicity - true greatness.
- And then there's Pushers' Street, where hash and grass are set out on open stalls for sale.
- Marijuana (grass, pot, weed) is the common name for a crude drug made from the plant Cannabis sativa.
- Often buying grass would put you into much closer proximity to someone who might sell something harder.
- I decide to break them in gently with the weakest joint I've ever rolled, made from the least powerful grass the coffee shop will sell.
- I would like to start with my personal experience with grass and Cannabis.
- It comes as a solid dark lump or as leaves, called resin and grass respectively.
- One member of the family recalls that all they did was ‘smoke grass, drop acid and make love as much as possible’.
- The last drug I took was a mix of marijuana in the forms of resin and grass.
- She told of how Sam had harassed one employee so bad that he had driven him to smoke grass to calm his nerves.
- Terms from years ago, such as pot, herb, grass, weed, Mary Jane and reefer, are still used.
- The principal benefit of smoking grass through a bong is that the smoke is cooled and several carcinogens are removed without removing the active ingredients.
- Ron Mann's film Grass chronicles the federal government's extensive and costly war on marijuana.
- I have been smoking grass for almost 25 years, starting in my twenties.
- When I go to Switzerland or Holland I can buy grass from coffee shops.
- According to some sources there is a very low risk of developing cancer or bronchitis from smoking pure grass joints.
Synonyms cannabis, marijuana, hashish, bhang, hemp, kef, kif, charas, ganja, sinsemilla 4British informal A police informer. Example sentencesExamples - It's based on an old tramp, he is a total down and out drunk, he's a grass and soon finds out that his life is going to end in a fire.
- He then asked who the drug dealer was and when he found out he said, 'I wouldn't do it for him anyway because he's a grass and his supplier's a grass."
Synonyms informer, mole, stool pigeon
verbɡræsɡras [with object]1Cover (an area of ground) with grass. hillsides so closely grassed over, they seem to be painted green Example sentencesExamples - That area is currently grassed with no proper footway.
- So most of the rubble was quickly shifted before the area was grassed over and turned into a small park near the water's edge.
- He said the cash would be better spent on providing parking and repairing damaged verges and grassed areas.
- At least our school is privileged enough to have a grassed rugby field.
- This paid for a new track and the upgrading of changing and viewing facilities, CCTV and improvements to the infield grassed area.
- The new facility includes climbing equipment, a sand tray, wobble board, storage shed and grassed area.
- Stadiums surround most of the field, although there is a small grassed area that is very popular with spectators.
- It was grassed over in 1987 and parts of it were developed to include the travellers' caravan amenity site.
- She suggested that the Castle car park be grassed over and the foundations of the Victorian prison walls beneath exposed, as had been done with the remains of St Mary's Abbey.
- The court, which is crossed by a covered walkway linking the two buildings, has been grassed over to provide a quiet area for pupils and staff.
- They were very impressed by the well cut grassed areas, the stone flower beds at the seafront, and the floral features at a number of private and business premises.
- The plans were then amended to exclude the original proposals for a synthetic hockey pitch and floodlighting and add a new bowling green and retention of existing grassed areas.
- It is to be replaced with a commemorative grassed area where occasional services will be held.
- After the Easter Rising of 1916 much of the rubble of the city was piled into one corner of the ground and grassed over to become the beloved terrace area that still survives and bears the name Hill 16.
- Options which are being considered include upgrading the existing grassed playing field which is used for sports, science and other projects at the school or replacing that facility with an all-weather football pitch.
- The car park area should be grassed over so it becomes integrated with the whole space in front of the Castle Museum and surrounding Clifford's Tower.
- With excellent indoor/outdoor flow, the patio and grassed areas are idyllic and on fine, cold days, outdoor heaters take the chill out of al fresco relaxation.
- It is set in pleasant parkland with good tree cover and grassed areas running along the riverbank.
- The spokesman said: ‘If negotiations are successful all this will be achieved without significant loss of existing grassed areas.’
- A small number of children gathered outside the school last night, while inside the gates on a small grassed area were four bunches of flowers.
Synonyms cover with grass, grass over, turf, lay grass on - 1.1US Feed (livestock) with grass.
Example sentencesExamples - There are 565 Highland cattle grassed nine months.
- Cows grassed, birds sang and everything was a bliss.
- Getting this animal out to grass reduces daily feed costs in half and should achieve over 1kg daily liveweight gain.
- The treatments involved early turnout of cows to grass for 2 h per day at two residual sward heights and two silage allowances, plus a control treatment, in a randomized block design.
- The it got more flat, and some parts were cultivated, but most were open areas where cattle were grassing.
- Given the high cost of concentrates this winter the early turnout of cows to grass this spring is likely to be an important aim on many farms.
2British informal no object Inform the police of criminal activity or plans. someone had grassed on the thieves Example sentencesExamples - Somebody must be proud of having grassed on her.
- To grass on a pusher ring police or contact Crimestoppers.
- You need accurate, up-to-date intelligence and friends on the ground, not a lot of terrified taxi drivers and unemployed bachelors confessing to ludicrous schemes and grassing out their neighbors to save themselves.
- The man who asked not to be identified was so fed up with his estate being used as a racetrack that he grassed the offenders up to police.
- You'd still have to grass up whoever made the posting, though.
- Anyone even thought to be left wing was subpoenaed, defamed and then blacklisted by the studio bosses if they refused to grass on their friends.
- Her ambition and drive are very much a part of her everyday work - she has no qualms about grassing on a colleague if it gets her out of trouble.
- Ross is consumed by his need to discover who grassed about his bank robbery, and had him locked up for eight years.
- It might sound harsh to some, but police say grassing on a drinker-driver could save lives.
- To find out who grassed on him read the rest of the review.
- They give him free weed and they may commence in their business without him grassing them up.
- I did a robbery and I got grassed up off my own brother and got four years.
- We mocked a Net-based plan to get people to grass up their neighbours whom they suspected of welfare fraud
- Convicted criminals will be urged to grass on their fellow inmates by a new range of cutlery carrying the number of the Crimestoppers scheme.
- Amazingly though, after grassing in the boys who carried out the attack, they are only suspended, the police heard nothing about it and neither did Daniel's parents.
- Likewise, he has a one in four chance, if he grasses, of going free, but a one in two chance of avoiding the ten year sentence, because if both prisoners talk the sentence is only five years.
- Here's what the person who informed on the online company said about grassing up their employer.
- An industry snitch has pocketed £4,000 after grassing on a Scottish IT company for using pirated software.
- Yes the person who had grassed us to the Police never thought they would get one of their own.
- But then their class aren't expected to grass each other up.
Phrases the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence proverb Other people's lives or situations always seem better than one's own. Example sentencesExamples - The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Just do your best.
- I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
- There is an old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
not let the grass grow under one's feet Not delay in acting or taking an opportunity. Example sentencesExamples - Want to promote your business? Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
- The Tidy Towns season is upon us, so don't let the grass grow under your feet.
- The editor said: ‘Grans don't let the grass grow under their feet.
- Catherine proved that she doesn't let the grass grow under her feet as she won the Northern Women's Championship.
- She still doesn't let the grass grow under her feet. She still drives, she travels by herself, she still tries to take care of everyone.
Origin Old English græs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gras, German Gras, also ultimately to green and grow. |