grass

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. A lawn.
4. (slang) Marijuana.
5. (slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
6. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. (slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
9. (obsolete) That which is transitory.
10. Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. The surface of a mine.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. (slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
3. To cover with grass or with turf.
4. To feed with grass.
5. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Conceptos

hierba

pasto

yerba

césped

grama

zacate

forraje

cáñamo

maría

mariguana

marihuana

mota

yerba forrajera

maleza

arbusto

delatar

cannabis

marijuana

rosemaria

orégano

sakate

motivosa

yerba de gallina

yerba maravedi

manigua

frescura

yerba de guinea

jabón del Asiento

herbaje

soplar

soplón

paslo

alfalfa

pastizal

hierbo

hierva

planta herbácea

hierba forrajera

planta

planta silvestre

vegetal

árbol

heno

paja

paja de la puna

paja silvestre

hierba alimenticia

hierba comestible

hoja de nabo

hortaliza

legumbre

mata

verdura

verduras

yuyo

traicionar

Mary Jane

chaquetón

chocolate

costo

grifa

polen

pote

cereal

gramíneas

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹɑːs/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.