grasses

Meaning of grasses

plural noun
  1. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.
  2. a mainly herbaceous plant with jointed stems and spikes of small wind-pollinated flowers, predominant in grass.
  3. cannabis.
  4. a police informer.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. cover (an area of ground) with grass.
    the railway tracks were mostly grassed over
  2. inform the police of someone's criminal activities or plans.
    someone had grassed on the thieves
    she threatened to grass me up
  3. catch and bring (a fish) to the riverbank.
    anglers grassed 294 trout
  4. knock (someone) down.

Old English græs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gras, German Gras, also ultimately to green and grow.

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Hyphenation of grasses

grasses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • grasses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

grasses synonyms

Meaning grass and the surface layer of earth held together by its roots:

turf

Meaning green foliage, growing plants, or vegetation:

greenery

Meaning a piece of public grassy land, especially in the centre of a village:

green

Meaning the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it; turf:

sod

Meaning an area of short, regularly mown grass in the garden of a house or park:

lawn

Meaning an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences:

field

Meaning land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep:

pasture

Meaning a piece of grassland, especially one used for hay:

meadow

Meaning a large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing:

grassland, grasslands

Meaning open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is conventionally divided by altitude into highveld, middleveld, and lowveld:

veld

Meaning an expanse of short grass:

sward

Meaning an alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water:

mead

Meaning an open area of grassy or arable land:

lea

Meaning a person who informs on another person to the police or other authority:

informer

Meaning a small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates:

mole

Meaning an informer:

snitch, rat

Meaning the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal:

snout

Meaning short for stool pigeon:

stoolie

Meaning a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing:

scab

Meaning the part projecting above the mouth on the face of a person or animal, containing the nostrils and used for breathing and smelling:

nose

Meaning a police informer:

nark

Meaning a police informer who implicates a large number of people:

supergrass

Meaning an unpleasant or contemptible person:

fink

Meaning give incriminating information about someone to the police or other authority:

inform

Meaning communicate information to someone in spoken or written words:

tell

Meaning expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy:

betray

Meaning publicly declare to be wrong or evil:

denounce

Meaning a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin:

peach

Meaning make a squeal:

squeal

Meaning make a high-pitched sound or cry:

squeak

Meaning move or go in a furtive or stealthy way:

sneak

Meaning visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods:

shop

Meaning break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:

split

Meaning touch or feel with the fingers:

finger

Meaning do casual or occasional work:

job

Meaning inform against someone:

dob

Meaning act as a pimp:

pimp

Meaning (of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface:

pool

Meaning a flat length of wood or other rigid material, attached to a wall or forming part of a piece of furniture, that provides a surface for the storage or display of objects:

shelf

Meaning attempt to sell (something), typically by a direct or persistent approach:

tout

Meaning report (an offence or crime):

delate

grasses antonyms

Meaning keep safe from harm or injury:

protect

Anagrams of grasses

gassers

Words that rhyme with grasses

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