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 animals2: 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 bracts3: land (as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass <keep off the grass> <the horse had never won on grass>4plural : leaves or plants of grass5: a state or place of retirement <put out to grass>6 [short for grasshopper, rhyming slang for copper] slang British : a police informer7: electronic noise on a radarscope that takes the form of vertical lines resembling lawn grass8: marijuana

— grass·less

\-ləs\ adjective

— grass·like

\-ˌlīk\ adjective

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