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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.
[1505–15]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.grassy - abounding in grass
grassless - lacking grass
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Translations
مُعْشَوْشِب
travnatý
græsbevokset
füves
grösugur
trávnatý
travnat
çimenli

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] adjherbeux/euse
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grassy

adj (+er)grasig; grassy slopeGrashang 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.
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References in classic literature ?
There are no leaves on the trees and hedgerows, but how green all the grassy fields are!
"Follow yonder green path till it leads you into a little grassy glade, where is a crystal well and a hut of woven boughs hard by, and you shall see her whom you seek."
The two were walking in the fields on a summer afternoon and had stopped to sit upon a grassy bank.
Ever since they had got among these barren and arid hills where there was a deficiency of grass, they had met with no buffaloes; those animals keeping in the grassy meadows near the streams.
Mary was in a grassy corner of the garden, where there was a swing loftily hung between two pear-trees.
"I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Cheniere; the old fort at Grande Terre.
The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride.
At daylight they were in the saddle again, and skirted along the river, passing through fresh grassy meadows, and a succession of beautiful groves of willows and cotton-wood.
All the others were following the herds over the grassy pastures, and he, left quite alone in the homestead, was roaming hither and thither and playing thrillingly upon the lyre.
As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.
Now, I am seldom out on a really grassy wicket for such a meagre score, and as David and I changed places without a word, there was a cheery look on his face that I found very galling.
The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation, and half drowns the grassy fringe of the croft in front of the house.