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grass·y

(grăs′ē)

adj. grass·i·er, grass·i·est

1. Covered with or abounding in grass.

2. Resembling or suggestive of grass, as in color or odor.

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grassy

(ˈɡrɑːsɪ)

adj, grassier or grassiest

(Plants) covered with, containing, or resembling grass

ˈgrassiness n

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grass•y

(ˈgræs i, ˈgrɑ si)

adj. grass•i•er, grass•i•est.

1. covered with grass.

2. having the flavor, odor, or color of grass.

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Adj.

grassy - abounding in grass

grassless - lacking grass

Translations

مُعْشَوْشِب

travnatý

græsbevokset

grasig

herbeux herbu

füves

grösugur

erboso

gressaktig gresskledd

trávnatý

travnat

çimenli

多草的

grassy

[ˈgrɑːsɪ] ADJ (grassier (compar) (grassiest (superl))) → herboso, pastoso (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

grassy

[ˈgrɑːsi] adj → herbeux/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grassy

adj (+er) → grasig; grassy slope → Grashang m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

grassy

[ˈgrɑːsɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → erboso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grass

(graːs) noun

1. the green plant which covers fields, garden lawns etc.

2. any species of grass, including also corn and bamboo. He studies grasses.

3. (slang) marijuana.

ˈgrassy adjective

a grassy bank/slope.

ˈgrasshopper noun

a type of insect which jumps and which makes a noise by rubbing its wings.

ˈgrassland noun

land covered with grass, used as pasture for animals.

References in periodicals archive ?

As evening drew near, the rams began to descend to the lower, grassier slopes.

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Aiden McGeady shot across goal when he cut inside after five minutes, then mistimed a volley, and both sides carried more threat down his grassier side of the Stadium of Light pitch, but the direction of travel was mainly towards the Accrington goal.

Sunderland 2-2 Accrington Stanley: A see-saw performance but the same frustrating outcome; The Black Cats' game against struggling Accrington Stanley turned decisively as the half-hour approached and back again on 55 minutes

The walk to our next Munro begins with a sharp descent, first over shattered rocks and then on a softer, grassier path.

Ben there, done that; Fiona and her husband Gordon visit Glen Nevis Youth Hostel for a weekend of mountain hiking

Fire suppression practices (which certainly benefit communities) have also resulted in thicker, brushier woodlands; not the open grassier woodlands favored by bobwhite.

Quail in the Classroom

They need vaccinations before taking a winter holiday in the sunnier, warmer and grassier Eden Valley.

Sheep get makeover for market; THE YORKSHIRE SHEPHERDESS

While the recent studies have developed around offshore and nearshore outsourcing, business process outsourcing and the provision of application services (Lacity et al., 2009, Rottman and Lacity, 2006), studies on outsourcing to emerging economies have been gaining special attention (Javalgi et al., 2009, Grassier et al., 2013).

Significance of Supplier Selection Criteria Evolvement in IT Outsourcing to Emerging Economies - Lessons from a Global IT Outsourcing Project

Therefore, cotton rats seemed to be actively girdling trees only during the winter months, primarily using damaged areas only when actively girdling trees (February through early May) and then moving to grassier, more open areas as other food sources became available.

Girdling by the hispid cotton rat as a significant source of mortality in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) successional forest

"Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces-- We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches.

"Not flowers for poets' tearful foolings": first World War poetry, flowers and the pastoral failure

But in the time it took me to get a hold of a birding guide and a monocular, the bobolink and its brethren had taken off for grassier meadows.

Is this the swan song for the bobolink?

Grassroots campaigning can't get any grassier than that.

Read the signs to pick local election winners

We also caught a lot of largemouths when we moved to grassier areas.

Subsurface topwaters: and other smallmouth oxymorons

Although in Shoah Lanzmann revives Czierniakow's words as a Jewish Council 'Elder' posthumously through his diary, to challenge the selective live testimony of Franz Grassier, a Deputy to the Nazi Commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto, the presentation of Murmelstein's defense deserves to be treated separately and Lanzmann was right to exclude it from Shoah.