2. Verb. (third-person singular of grass) ¹
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Definition of Grasses
1. grass [v] - See also: grass
Medical Definition of Grasses
1. A large family, gramineae, of narrow-leaved herbaceous monocots. Many grasses produce highly allergenic pollens and are hosts to cattle parasites and toxic fungi. (12 Dec 1998)
Literary usage of Grasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"It is not to be supposed that all the grasses here described will be ...
Our country presents such a diversity of climate and soil that certain grasses, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The general type of true grasses is familiar in the cultivated cereals of ...
Most cereals and many other grasses are annual, and possess a tuft of very ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"THE earliest, as well as the latest sign of vegetable life is, perhaps, afforded
by the grasses, whose green blades form the sward which we all so much ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882)
"grasses GROW? BY WW FINK. I CLOSED my book, for Nature's book Was opening that
day, And, with a weary brain, I took My hat, and wandered toward the brook ..."
5. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"Orchard grass or cock's foot is another of the more popular of the list of grasses
grown in the Eastern and Middle states. It has the habit of growing in ..."
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