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grasses

grasses is the plural of grass.

grasses is the plural of grasse.

grasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grass.

Meaning of grass

Noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

  1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
    • Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men. / For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp. /...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 90:3–6
  2. (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  3. (uncountable) A lawn.
  4. (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
  5. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
    • Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass1970, Paul McCartney, “Get Back”, in Let It Be, performed by The Beatles
  6. (UK, countable, slang) An informer; snitch, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
    • What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

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Proper noun capitalized: Grasses

Grasses

  1. (plural) plural of Grasse

Phrases with grasses

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Questions about grasses

What is grasses the plural of?
Grasses is the plural of grass.
What part of speech is grasses?
Grasses is a proper noun.

Words near grasses in the dictionary

  1. Grassendale
  2. grasseous
  3. grasser
  4. grasserie
  5. grassers
  6. grasses
  7. grasses on
  8. grasses up
  9. Grasset
  10. grassfield
  11. grassfields

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