English words for 'fescue grass'
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noun
noun
- perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
- grains of aquatic grass of North America
- Rice of species Oryza rufipogon
- Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
- Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
verb
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
verb
noun
noun
verb
adj
- Consisting of weeds.
- Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
- (figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak.
- (figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness.
- Abounding with weeds.
- (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
- being very thin
- abounding with or resembling weeds
noun
- dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
- growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
- the destruction or collapse of something
- A high, flying cloud; a rack.
- Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
- The remains of something; a wreck.
- Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
noun
noun
- The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
- The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
- A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
noun
- Ellipsis of gooseneck loosestrife.
- (nautical) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
- (often attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
- Ellipsis of gooseneck barnacle.
- something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of duckweed.
- (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
- (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- (with the, uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal, originally slang) Cannabis.
- (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- street names for marijuana
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
verb
- (library science, transitive) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- simple past and past participle of wee
- (figurative, transitive) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- clear of weeds
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A marine grass of salt marshes, glasswort (Salicornia herbacea)
- Those members of the genus Digitaria, grasses of tropical to temperate climates, which are pests of lawns, mainly from their invasive habits and the fact they die off in the fall and winter, leaving bare patches.
- grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns
noun
- seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
- edible red seaweeds
- (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
- Porphyra vulgaris
- That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
- One who laves: a washer.
- A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
- Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
- Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
noun
- seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
- Scaevola taccada, also known as the beach cabbage, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is native to coastal regions of the Indo-Pacific.
- Monostroma spp., also known as the slender sea lettuce, a kind of algae.
- Similar seaweed species of other genera:
- Dudleya caespitosa, also known as the sand lettuce, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is endemic to coastal areas of California
- Any of several edible seaweeds of the genus Ulva.
noun
- Alternative form of goosegrass
- annual weedy grass used for hay
- low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia
- annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
noun
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
noun
- Chickweed (Stellaria media)
- Olsynium douglasii (syn. Sisyrhinchium douglasii)
- Honesty (Lunaria annua subsp. annua)
- A wildflower native to the western US and British Columbia, of species Clarkia amoena (syn. Godetia grandiflora).
- Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)
- (South Africa) Any plant of the genus Geissorhiza.
- Sisyrinchium striatum.
- (Australia) A flannel flower (Actinotus helianthi)
noun
noun
- perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
- grains of aquatic grass of North America
- Rice of species Oryza rufipogon
- Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
- Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
verb
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
verb
noun
- dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
- growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
- the destruction or collapse of something
- A high, flying cloud; a rack.
- Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
- The remains of something; a wreck.
- Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
noun
noun
- The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
- The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
- A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
noun
- Ellipsis of gooseneck loosestrife.
- (nautical) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
- (often attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
- Ellipsis of gooseneck barnacle.
- something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of duckweed.
- (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
- (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- (with the, uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal, originally slang) Cannabis.
- (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- street names for marijuana
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
verb
- (library science, transitive) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- simple past and past participle of wee
- (figurative, transitive) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- clear of weeds
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A marine grass of salt marshes, glasswort (Salicornia herbacea)
- Those members of the genus Digitaria, grasses of tropical to temperate climates, which are pests of lawns, mainly from their invasive habits and the fact they die off in the fall and winter, leaving bare patches.
- grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns
noun
- seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
- edible red seaweeds
- (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
- Porphyra vulgaris
- That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
- One who laves: a washer.
- A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
- Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
- Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
noun
- seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
- Scaevola taccada, also known as the beach cabbage, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is native to coastal regions of the Indo-Pacific.
- Monostroma spp., also known as the slender sea lettuce, a kind of algae.
- Similar seaweed species of other genera:
- Dudleya caespitosa, also known as the sand lettuce, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is endemic to coastal areas of California
- Any of several edible seaweeds of the genus Ulva.
noun
- Alternative form of goosegrass
- annual weedy grass used for hay
- low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia
- annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
noun
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
noun
- Chickweed (Stellaria media)
- Olsynium douglasii (syn. Sisyrhinchium douglasii)
- Honesty (Lunaria annua subsp. annua)
- A wildflower native to the western US and British Columbia, of species Clarkia amoena (syn. Godetia grandiflora).
- Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)
- (South Africa) Any plant of the genus Geissorhiza.
- Sisyrinchium striatum.
- (Australia) A flannel flower (Actinotus helianthi)
verb
noun
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
verb
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
verb
adj
- Consisting of weeds.
- Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
- (figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak.
- (figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness.
- Abounding with weeds.
- (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
- being very thin
- abounding with or resembling weeds