Definition of Grass

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Grass

Grass

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

The season of fresh grass; spring.

Metaphorically used for what is transitory.

To cover with grass or with turf.

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.

To produce grass.

Related Definitions:

An, And, As, Bleaching, Bring, Cattle, Constitute, Cover, Endogenous, Expose, Fish, Flax, Food, For, Fresh, Generally, Grass, Ground, Having, Herbage, In, Is, Jointed, Land, Leaves, Of, On, Or, Other, Pasture, Plant, Popularly, Produce, Season, Seed, Simple, Single, Spring, Stem, The, To, Transitory, Tubular, Turf, Used, What, Which, With

Grass Quotations

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

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

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

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

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
Andy Rooney

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
Phyllis Diller

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

Quotes