GR`ASS, n.
1. In common usage, herbage the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts.
2. In botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx, called glume, and the seed single. This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, &c., and excludes clover and some other plants which are commonly called by the name of grass. The grasses form a numerous family of plants.
Grass of Parnassus, a plant, the Parnassia.
GR`ASS, To cover with grass or with turf.
GR`ASS, To breed grass to be covered with grass.
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