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# grass

«grass» in Mova's school dictionary: **the green plants with thin leaves that cover lawns, parks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grass, grasses); verb (grass, grassed — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grass is the green plants with thin leaves that cover lawns, parks and fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#m1)

2) A grass is one kind of this plant; wheat and bamboo are grasses too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#m2)

3) To grass on someone is to tell on them (UK slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a lawn to mow (area), or grass eaten by animals; heights of grass; in science: grass makes food from sunlight, cows and sheep eat grass, food chains start with grass; in everyday life: «keep off the grass», cutting the lawn; phrases: «the grass is always greener on the other side» (other things seem better than they are)

### examples

- He mows the grass in 40 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x1)
- The grass grows 2 cm a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x2)
- The field of grass is 20 m by 10 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x3)
- Cows eat the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x4)
- Please keep off the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x5)
- We sat on the grass and had a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x6)
- Grass → rabbit → fox is a food chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x7)
- The morning dew made the grass wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x8)
- The grass is always greener on the other side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x9)
- All around grew nettles and tall grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#x10)

### note

Usually a story word; growth per week is a rate. Lawn area = length × width (20 m × 10 m = 200 square metres). Uncountable for the lawn (some grass); «grasses» for kinds.

### In the corpora

- [Horse teeth keep growing out and wearing down on tough grass, so a vet can guess a horse's age from its teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/8/)
- [A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top front teeth, only a hard pad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/12/)
- [Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/11/)
- [Wild rabbits mostly eat grass, clover and leafy plants; carrots are sugary and should be only a small treat for pet rabbits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/5/)
- [Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.