grassˈbird noun

1. An Australasian warbler with streaked brown plumage (genus Megalurus)
2. Also applied to various other birds of the southern hemisphere

grass box noun

A receptacle attached to some lawnmowers to catch the grass cuttings

grass carp noun

A breed of fish, native to the South China Sea, imported into other areas to control various kinds of weed which it eats in great quantities

grass characters see grass style below.

grass cloth noun

A name for various coarse cloths (rarely made of grass), esp rami

grassˈcloth plant noun

The plant (rami)

grass court noun

A grass-covered tennis court

grassˈ-cutter noun

1. A mowing machine
2. (in India) a person who provides fodder for baggage cattle (perh really Hindustani ghāskatā)

grassˈ-green adjective

1. Green with grass
2. Green as grass

grassˈ-grown adjective

Grown over with grass

grassˈhook noun

Another name for sickle¹

grassˈhopper noun

1. A name for various herbivorous jumping insects of the order Orthoptera, related to locusts and crickets, that chirp by rubbing their wing-covers
2. A cocktail made with crème de menthe, crème de cacao and cream

grasshopper mind noun

A mind which is desultory or unable to concentrate on any one object for long

grasshopper warbler noun

A songbird (Locustella naevia) whose song resembles a grasshopper's stridulation

grassˈland noun

Permanent pasture

grass line noun

A sisal rope, used on boats, that floats on the surface of the water (also grass rope)

grass moth noun

A small light-coloured moth that frequents grass, a veneer-moth

grass of Parnassus see under Parnassus

grassˈ-oil noun

A name for several volatile oils derived from widely different plants, some of them grasses

grassˈ-plot noun

A plot of grassy ground

grassˈquit noun

Any of various small tropical American songbirds of the finch family

grassˈ-rooter noun

grassˈ-roots plural noun (orig US)

1. The ordinary people, the rank and file in a country, political party, etc, thought of as voters
2. The rural areas of a country
3. The foundation, basis, origin, primary aim or meaning

adjective

Of, belonging to or appealing to the grass-roots

grass rope see grass line above.

grass sickness noun

A disease of the bowels affecting horses

grass snake noun

The harmless common ringed snake

grass style noun

A form of Chinese calligraphy in which the shapes of characters (grass characters) are greatly simplified for artistic effect

grass tree noun

An Australian plant (genus Xanthorrhoea) with shrubby stems, tufts of long wiry foliage at the summit, and a tall flower-stalk, with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers

grass widow noun

A wife temporarily separated from or deserted by her husband

grass widower noun

grassˈwrack noun

Eelgrass

go (or be put out) to grass

1. To be turned out to pasture, esp of a horse too old to work
2. To go into retirement or to live in the country
3. (of a boxer) to fall violently, be knocked down (slang)

grass (someone) up (slang)

To inform on (someone)

hear the grass grow

1. To have exceptionally acute hearing
2. To be exceptionally alert

let the grass grow under one's feet

To loiter or linger, and so lose one's opportunity