" grasses "

[Noun]  | "grass" | \ ˈgras \

1: herbage suitable or used for grazing animals

2: any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts

3: land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English grōwan to grow;

[Noun]  | "Ba*hia grass" | \ bə-ˈhē-ə- \

1: a perennial tropical American grass (Paspalum notatum) used in the southern U.S. as a lawn grass

Origin: circa 1927 ;

 Bahia, state in Brazil;

[Noun]  | "barnyard grass" 

1: a coarse annual panicled grass (Echinochloa crusgalli) that has flowers borne on only one side of the raceme and is nearly cosmopolitan as a weed in cultivated ground

Origin: 1843 ;

[Noun]  | "beach grass" 

1: any of several tough strongly rooted grasses that grow on exposed sandy shores; especially : any of a genus (Ammophila) of rhizomatous perennials widely planted to bind sandy slopes

Origin: 1681 ;

[Noun]  | "bear grass" 

1: any of several plants (genera Yucca, Nolina, or Xerophyllum) of the lily or agave families chiefly of the southern and western U.S. with foliage resembling coarse blades of grass

Origin: 1750 ;

[Noun]  | "bent grass" 

1: any of a genus (Agrostis) of grasses including important chiefly perennial and rhizomatous pasture and lawn grasses with fine velvety or wiry herbage

Origin: 1677 ;

[Noun]  | "Bermuda grass" 

1: a creeping stoloniferous southern European grass (Cynodon dactylon) often used as a lawn and pasture grass

Origin: 1803 ;

[Noun]  | "blue-eyed grass" 

1: any of a genus (Sisyrinchium) of New World herbs of the iris family having grasslike foliage and blue, yellow, or white flowers

Origin: 1783 ;

[Noun]  | "buffalo grass" 

1: a low-growing perennial grass (Buchloë dactyloides) native to the Great Plains that has curly grayish-green leaves; also : grama

Origin: 1784 ;

[Verb]  | "grass" 

1: to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates

2: to cover with grass; especially : to seed to grass

3: to produce grass

Origin: circa 1500 ;

[Noun]  | "grasses" 

[Verb]  | "grass (on)"