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grasp
  • n  understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
    he has a good grasp of accounting practices
  • n  the limit of capability
  • n  an intellectual hold or understanding
    a terrible power had her in its grasp
  • n  the act of grasping
  • v  hold firmly
  • v  get the meaning of something
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grass
  • n  narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
  • n  German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
  • n  a police informer who implicates many people
  • n  bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  • n  street names for marijuana
  • v  shoot down, of birds
  • v  cover with grass
    The owners decided to grass their property
  • v  spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
  • v  cover with grass
  • v  feed with grass
  • v  give away information about somebody
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grass-of-parnassus
  • n  any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
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grass bacillus
  • n  a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics
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grass family
  • n  the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
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grass fern
  • n  epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America
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grass finch
  • n  usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds
  • n  common North American finch noted for its evening song
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grass parakeet
  • n  small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
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grass pea
  • n  European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere
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