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# grass

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

«grass» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Grass is the green plants with thin leaves that cover lawns, parks and fields. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/#m3)

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

Grass and herbs are signs of the land's fruitfulness and of God's blessing of rain. Pharaoh's dream has cows feeding in reed-grass, a word that is Egyptian in origin. The Prophets and Psalms also use withered grass as a picture of how short and weak human life is.

**Interpretation.** Moses promises grass for the cattle as a reward for keeping God's commandments. The rabbis taught that a person should feed their animals before sitting down to eat. Tradition reads the withering grass as a reminder that only God lasts forever.

### Examples

- And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied. (Torah DEU.11.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x1)
- And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favoured and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass. (Torah GEN.41.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x2)
- And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass. (Torah GEN.41.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x3)
- Can the reed-grass grow without water? (Writings JOB.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x4)
- My days are like a lengthening shadow; and I am withered like grass. (Writings PSA.102.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x5)
- And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. (Prophets ISA.44.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grass» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grass/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grass» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grass.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «grass» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grass/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grass» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/grass.html) on Mova free.