Definition of grass
(Entry 1 of 3)
1
: herbage suitable or used for grazing animals
2
: any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts
3
: land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass
keep off the grass the horse had never won on grass
4
grasses 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
verb
grassed; grassing; grasses
Definition of grass (Entry 2 of 3)
1
: to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates
2
: to cover with grass
especially
: to seed to grass
Grass
biographical nameDefinition of Grass (Entry 3 of 3)
Günter Wilhelm 1927–2015 German writer
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