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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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grass pink
  • n  an orchid
  • n  European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers
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grass poly
  • n  annual with small solitary pink flowers; originally of Europe but widely naturalized in moist areas
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grass roots
  • n  the essential foundation or source
  • n  the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
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