grasses is a form of:
Grass
noun
- 1.
- (UNCOUNTABLE) (Any of a family of plants with long, narrow leaves, growing on lawns and in pastures, any of a group of plants with jointed stems and narrow leaveaf called blades. Wheat, corn, bamboo, and sugar cane are all grasses, ground covered with grass) តិណជាតិ, វាលស្មៅសត្វ mow the grass ស្មៅ
verb — past tense: grassed ; past participle: grassed ; present participle: grassing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) ~ something (over) (to cover with grass, tofeed with grass) grass a lawn ដាំស្មៅ, grass cattle អោយស៊ីស្មៅ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
- 2.
- An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
- 3.
- The season of fresh grass; spring.
- 4.
- Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
verb — past tense: grassed ; past participle: grassed ; present participle: grassing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cover with grass or with turf.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To produce grass.