grass

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. lawn, greenery, turf, sod, verdure; marijuana. See vegetable, drugs.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1.

Wild grasses include: Johnson grass, salt grass, blue grass, beach grass, bent grass, foxtail, sedge, rush, reed, buffalo grass, bulrush, sand-bur, couch grass, carpet grass, crab grass, crowfoot, deer grass, bunch grass, meadow grass, fescue, heath grass, joint grass, orchard grass, pampas grass, June grass, redtop, river grass, slough grass, ribbon grass, stink grass, sweet grass, tickle grass, bRome, canary grass, cat-tail, bamboo, wild rice. Cultivated grasses include: cane, millet, oats, wheat, barley, maize, rye, broomcorn, timothy, kaffir corn, Milo maize, bent grass, Bermuda grass, fescue, Kentucky blue grass, rice, sesame, sorghum.

2. [Grassed area]

Syn. grassland, meadow, lawn, garden (British), turf, green, fairway, sward, greensward, pasture, prairie, bottom, bottomland, hayfield; see also field 1 , yard 1 .

3. [*A drug]

Syn. marijuana, Nicotanea glauca (Latin), hemp, cannabis, pot*, weed*, maryjane*, boo*; see also drug 2 .

• let the grass grow under one's feet*,

Syn. waste time, be lazy, fail; see neglect 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

lawn, turf, sward, pasture, meadow, alfalfa, barley, Bermuda grass, bluegrass, broomcorn, buckwheat, bulrush, bunch grass, cane, crab grass, darnel, eelgrass, fescue, foxtail, hay, horsetail, lemon grass, millet, oat, orchard grass, redtop, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, sedge, sorghum, timothy, wheat, witch grass. ''The hair of the earth.''—Thomas Dekker.

WORD FIND

• clump: hassock, tussock, tuft

• decaying matter beneath: thatch

• dried: hay

• hay: timothy

• individual: blade, spear, shoot, leaf

• new growth: fog

see field