Grass

Description

Any of over 9000 species of grass. Grass is a perennial plant with long, cylindrical leaves that have been used for making paper, ropes, baskets, and fabric. For examples see: donax arundo donax, grass bear grass, grass cuscus grass, eelgrass, grass elephant grass, grass elk grass, grass esparto grass, cloth grass cloth, horsetail, papyrus, ramie, reed, sedge, silkgrass, and sorghum.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Gras (Deut.); gazon (Fr.); grs (Sven.)

Additional Images

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  Several types of grasses

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  Grass

Authority

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass (Accessed Nov. 2, 2005)

• Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998