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Date "GRASSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
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Health | A large family, Gramineae, of narrow-leaved herbaceous monocots. Many grasses produce highly allergenic pollens and are hosts to cattle parasites and toxic fungi. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
True grasses (image here) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genera
- Poa- Bluegrass
- List of Poaceae genera
The true grasses are monocot (Liliopsida) plants of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae). The family includes lawn and forage grasses, bamboo, wheat, rice, rye, corn, sugarcane, and numerous other species of considerable ecological and economic importance. Agricultural grasses grown for food production are called cereals.
Grasses are generally characterized by the following:
Cereals are the major source of calories for humans, including rice in India and the Far East, maize in Mexico, and wheat and barley in Europe and North America. Staple food grains are often called corn.
- Hollow stems (called culms), plugged at intervals by nodes.
- Leaves, arising at nodes, are alternate, distichous (in one plane) or rarely spiral.
- Leaves are differentiated into a sheath hugging the stem for a short distance and a blade with margin usually entire; a ligule (a membranous appendage or ring of hairs) lies on top at the junction between sheath and blade.
- Flowers are small, without petals, borne clustered in an inflorescence, often a spike or tassel, and wind-pollinated.
See also: Sugarcane, Marram grass, Bluegrass
External Link
- Grass family
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Poaceae."
Synonym: GRASSESSynonym: Grazing. (additional references) |
Crosswords: GRASSES |
| Specialty definitions using "GRASSES": Azoarcus, Azospirillum ♦ Butterfly ♦ disengagement cutting, disengagement felling ♦ fruit picker ♦ Grassed waterway, Grasshopper ♦ Haemonchus, HARVEST WORKER, FRUIT, Herbicides ♦ irrigated pasture ♦ Park, Permanent vegetative cover, phragmites peat, Prairie ♦ savanna forest, savanna woodland, savannah forest, savannah woodland, Set-aside program, Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 ♦ take-all ♦ xerophytic grasses. (references) |
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 | Removal of marsh grasses and SAV's next to this boat ramp have added to erosion problems in the area. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Well-rings and grasses provide erosion control in this location. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Large stands of Phragmites australis often indicate that salt water flow is restricted in marshes. This non-native grass is beautiful, but salt marshes in the northeastern United States should be comprised of Spartina grasses and other native salt marsh plants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Prairie grasses and woodland plantings furnish wildlife habitat in Shelby County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | NRCS District Conservationist Hal Pyle checks information along a buffer in Sangamon County, Illinois. This buffer traps sediment from the cropland preventing it from going into the stream. The grasses also provide food and nesting areas for song birds. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | A local high school teachers shows his students the different grasses that grow at the Happy Jack Chalk mine peak Scotia, NE. Credit: USDA. |
 | Bob Schnieder (l) and Ed Weilbacher look over grasses Bob planted on his property to support wildlife. in the Venedy, IL. area. Credit: USDA. |  | Roylene Rides at the Door-Waln, NRCS, Resource Conservationist taking an inventory of pasture grasses. Credit: USDA. |
 | After a fire, a lush spring growth of grasses and forbs in the South Steens area. Credit: Rick Hall. |  | Oryx, African large game introduced to NM in 1970's. Roams south central New Mexico near the San Augustin mountains. This species forages in the scrub desert forbs and black grama grasses of southern NM. Credit: Lane R. Hauser. |
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| "Grasses" by L L Commentary: "Grasses on the sand dunes, Marske-by-the-Sea, UK." | "Dancing Grasses" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "From the series Winter Bouquets, a challenge to find beauty in the dead of winter, when nothing grows." |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Evening had fallen when he woke and the sand and arid grasses of his bed glowed no longer |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom could hear the whisper of water against the grasses in the irrigation ditch |
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Health | The cotton rat prefers overgrown areas with shrubs and tall grasses. (references) | |
Ticks search for host animals from the tips of grasses, shrubs, and leaf litter and transfer to animals or persons that brush against vegetation. (references) | ||
For example, people allergic to ragweed may leave their ragweed-ridden communities and relocate to areas where ragweed does not grow, only to develop allergies to other weeds or even to grasses or trees in their new surroundings. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | The Greek seed market includes cotton, corn, wheat, sugar beets, alfalfa, industrial tomato and vegetables and grasses. (references) |
Greece | The bulk of the seeds imported into Greece for field crops, vegetables, grasses and forage plants come from the EU and the United States. (references) | |
China | Government officials encourage farmers to plant forage grasses, like alfalfa, as a means to feed livestock while also preventing erosion and desertification. (references) | |
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| "GRASSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRASSES" is used about 312 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 312 | 16,340 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "GRASSES": native grasses ♦ xerophytic grasses. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "GRASSES": rye-grasses. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "GRASSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | barëra të egra (native grasses). (various references) | |
Danish | graesser (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
Dutch | grassenfamilie (gramineae, Gramineal), grassen (gramineae, Gramineal), gramineeën (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
Finnish | heinäkasvit (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
French | Graminacées (gramineae, Gramineal), Graminées (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
German | Gräser (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
Greek | αγρωστώδη (gramineae, Gramineal), αγρωστίδαι (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pázsitfűfélék, fűfélék. (various references) | |
Italian | graminacee (gramineae, Gramineal, grass), graminacea (gramineae, Gramineal), pianta erbacea (gramineae, Gramineal), erba (grass, herb, pot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茅 (hay, plants used for thatching, various gramineous grasses), 野草 (field grass, wild grasses, wildflowers). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のぐさ (field grass, wild grasses, wildflowers), かや (hay, Japanese nutmeg tree, mosquito net, plants used for thatching, various gramineous grasses), やそう (field grass, wild grasses, wildflowers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assesgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gramíneas (gramineae, Gramineal), poáceas (gramineae, Gramineal). (various references) | |
Russian | дикие травы (native grasses, native-grasses). (various references) | |
Spanish | gramináceas (gramineae, Gramineal), gramíneas (gramineae, Gramineal), gramínea (gramineae, Gramineal, grass). (various references) | |
Swedish | gräs (grass, herb, pot, tea). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gramineae. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 40, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Esthsen ouran wV kuparisson ta de neura autou sumpeplektai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Protegunt umbrae umbram eius circumdabunt eum salices torrentis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Shadewis coueren his vmbre; withiene trees of the strem enuyrounen hym. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 40, Verse 17 |
| Albanian | E lëkund bishtin e tij si një kedër; nervat e kofshëve të tij janë të thurura mirë. |
| Bulgarian | Клати опашката си като кедър; Жилите на бедрата му са сплотени. |
| Cebuano | Iyang paggimukon ang iyang ikog ingon sa cedro: Ang mga ugat sa iyang paa ginalanggikit. |
| Croatian | Poput cedra rep podignut ukruti, sva su mu stegna ispreplele žile. |
| Danish | Lotusbuskene giver den Tag og Skygge, Bækkens Pile yder den Hegn. |
| Finnish | Lootuspensaat peittävät sen varjoonsa, puron pajut ympäröivät sitä. |
| German | Sein Schwanz streckt sich wie eine Zeder; die Sehnen seiner Schenkel sind dicht geflochten. |
| Haitian Creole | Ke l' kanpe tankou yon pye sèd. Venn janm li yo fè boul. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia menegakkan ekornya seperti pohon aras, otot-otot pahanya kokoh dan keras. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pokok seroja itu menaungi dia dengan bayang-bayangnya, dan kelilingnya adalah pokok teruntum. |
| Italian | Rizza la coda come un cedro, i nervi delle sue cosce s'intrecciano saldi, |
| Korean | 서 로 연 하 여 붙 었 으 니 능 히 나 눌 수 도 없 구 나 |
| Maori | Ko tona hiawero, ano he hita e tawhiria ana e ia: powhiwhiwhi tonu nga uaua o tona huha. |
| Norwegian | Lotusbusker gir den tak og skygge, piletrærne ved bekken omgir den. |
| Portuguese | Ele enrija a sua cauda como o cedro; os nervos das suas coxas são entretecidos. |
| Rumanian | Kwi kndoaie coada tare ca un cedru, wi vinele coapselor lui sknt kntreyqsute. |
| Spanish | Pone su cola tensa como un cedro, y los nervios de sus muslos están entretejidos. |
| Swedish | + |
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Words ending with "GRASSES": bluegrasses, bromegrasses, bunchgrasses, cordgrasses, crabgrasses, cutgrasses, eelgrasses, goosegrasses, hardinggrasses, johnsongrasses, knotgrasses, lemongrasses, nutgrasses, peppergrasses, pingrasses, raygrasses, ribgrasses, ryegrasses, switchgrasses, witchgrasses. (additional references) | |
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"GRASSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garesse, Gassees, Grassick, grassies, Grassle, Grasso, grasss, Gressis, Gressus, grises, rassass. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GRASSES" (pronounced gra"suz) |
| 4 | -a" s u z | asses, basses, classes, gases, gasses, glasses, masses, molasses, morasses, passes, surpasses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, aces, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appendixes, appliances, apprentices, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, balances, bases, biases, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, chases, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, fragrances, furnaces, fusses, gearboxes, geniuses, glances, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, mongooses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, paradoxes, penises, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gassers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gasser, gasses, sarges. | |
-2 letters: agers, arses, asses, gases, gears, grass, rages, rases, sager, sages, sarge, sears. | |
-3 letters: ager, ages, ares, arse, ears, eras, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, rage, rags, rase, regs, sage, sags, sass, sear, seas, segs, sera, sers. | |
-4 letters: age, are, ars, ass, ear, era, erg, ers, ess, gae, gar, gas, rag, ras. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: aggresses, assigners, brassages, degassers, dressages, gossamers, grassiest, grassless, largesses, massagers, reassigns, sugarless. | |
+3 letters: aggressors, cutgrasses, degaussers, eelgrasses, garishness, glasswares, glissaders, glossaries, goosegrass, graynesses, greaseless, greasiness, nutgrasses, ossifrages, passengers, pingrasses, preassigns, raygrasses, repassages, ribgrasses, ryegrasses, salesgirls, stegosaurs, teargasses, transgress. | |
+4 letters: aggressions, angrinesses, bluegrasses, cordgrasses, crabgrasses, eagernesses, expressages, gastritises, glassmakers, glasspapers, grandnesses, grapinesses, gravenesses, greatnesses, hourglasses, knotgrasses, largenesses, ranginesses, reassessing, sagebrushes, sandgrouses, seismograms, stegosaurus, strangeness, strategists, sugarhouses, surplusages, trespassing, vernissages. | |
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