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单词 grassward
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
grass /græs/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. Plant Biology[countable] a plant that has jointed stems and bladelike leaves and is grown for lawns, used as pasture, or cut for hay.
  2. Plant Biology such plants thought of as a group:[uncountable]Grass won't grow there.
  3. grass-covered ground:[uncountable]a picnic on the grass.
  4. [uncountable][Slang.]marijuana.
Idioms
  1. Idioms let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
grass  (gras, gräs),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Plant Biologyany plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Cf. grass family.
  2. Plant Biologysuch plants collectively, as when cultivated in lawns or used as pasture for grazing animals or cut and dried as hay.
  3. the grass-covered ground.
  4. pasture:Half the farm is grass.
  5. [Slang.]marijuana.
  6. grasses, stalks or sprays of grass:filled with dried grasses.
  7. the season of the new growth of grass.
  8. Idioms go to grass, to retire from one's occupation or profession:Many executives lack a sense of purpose after they have gone to grass.
  9. Idioms let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action, progress, etc.;
    become slack in one's efforts.

v.t. 
  1. to cover with grass or turf.
  2. to feed with growing grass;
    pasture.
  3. to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching.

v.i. 
  1. to feed on growing grass;
    graze.
  2. to produce grass;
    become covered with grass.
  • bef. 900; Middle English gras, Old English græs; cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse, Gothic gras; akin to grow, green
grassless, adj. 
grasslike′, adj. 
grassward, grasswards, adv. adj. 

Grass  (gräs; Ger. gräs),USA pronunciation n. 
    Gün•ter (Wil•helm)  (gŏŏntər wilhelm; Ger. gynr vilhelm),USA pronunciation born 1927, German novelist, poet, and playwright.
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