Main Entry: ¹grass

Pronunciation: \ˈgras\

Function: noun

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English grōwan to grow

Date: before 12th century

1 : herbage suitable or used for grazing animals
2 : any of a large family (Gramineae syn. Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts
3 : land (as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass <keep off the grass> <the horse had never won on grass>
4 plural : leaves or plants of grass
5 : a state or place of retirement <put out to grass>
6 [short for grasshopper, rhyming slang for copper] slang British : a police informer
7 : electronic noise on a radarscope that takes the form of vertical lines resembling lawn grass
8 : marijuana

— grass·less \-ləs\ adjective

— grass·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective