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Definition of Grass

Grass

  1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
  2. An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
  3. The season of fresh grass; spring.
  4. Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
  5. To cover with grass or with turf.
  6. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  7. To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
  8. To produce grass.

Grass Quotations

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran
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Grass Translations

grass in Afrikaans is gras
grass in Dutch is gras
grass in Finnish is ruoho
grass in French is herbe
grass in German is Gras
grass in Italian is erba
grass in Norwegian is gress
grass in Portuguese is erva, grama

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