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Wort is a related term of grass.


As a noun wort

is word as an isolated unit.

As a proper noun grass is

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wort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A plant; herb; vegetable.
  • *:
    • he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
  • * 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
    • It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
  • Any of various plants or herbs.
    • Derived terms
    * (vern, adder's wort) * adderwort * (American lungwort) * (asterwort) * awlwort * banewort * barrenwort * (bearwort) * bellwort * birthwort * bishop's wort * bitterwort * bladderwort * blawort * bloodwort * blue navelwort * blue throatwort * blushwort * bogwort * boragewort * bridewort * brimstonewort * brotherwort * brownwort * bruisewort * bugwort * bullock's lungwort * bullwort * burstwort * butterwort * cancerwort * catwort * clown's ringwort * colewort * common ragwort * coralwort * cow's lungwort * crosswort * damewort * danewort * dragonwort * dropwort * (dungwort) * ebony spleenwort * elderwort * (European pillwort) * (fanwort) * felonwort * (feltwort) * felwort * feverwort * figwort * fleawort * (flukewort) * (French lungwort) * frostwort * fumewort * (galewort) * (garlicwort) * (gentianwort) * (German madwort) * (gipsywort) * glasswort * (golden lungwort) * (golden ragwort) * goutwort * (greater spearwort) * gutwort * gypsywort * hammerwort * hartwort * heathwort * hemlock dropwort * hillwort * hogwort * holewort * honewort * honeywort * hoodwort * hornwort * ironwort * kelpwort * kidneywort * knotwort * laserwort * lazarwort * leadwort * lesser spearwort * lichwort * lilywort * liverwort * lousewort * lungwort * lustwort * madderwort * madwort * maidenhair spleenwort * mallowwort * marsh pennywort * marshwort * masterwort * maudlinwort * maywort * meadowwort * milkwort * miterwort * mitrewort * modiwort * moneywort * moonwort * moorwort * motherwort * moudiewort * moudiwort * mountain spiderwort * (mowdiewort) * mudwort * mugwort * (mulewort) * (nailwort) * navelwort * (nettlewort) * nipplewort * (peachwort) * pearlwort * pennywort * pepperwort * (peterwort) * pilewort * pillwort * pipewort * quillwort * quinsywort * rattlewort * ribwort * rosewort * rupturewort * saltwort * sandwort * sawwort * scorpionwort * scurvywort * sea lungwort * sea milkwort * sea ragwort * sea sandwort * sea starwort * setterwort * sicklewort * sleepwort * slipperwort * sneezewort * soapwort * sparrowwort * spearwort * spiderwort * spleenwort * spoonwort * springwort * spurwort * * * * * stabwort * staggerwort * staithwort * standerwort * starwort * staverwort * stinkwort * stitchwort * stonewort * strapwort * sulphurwort * swallowwort * sweetwort * talewort * tetterwort * thoroughwort * throatwort * thrumwort * toothwort * (towerwort) * (tree lungwort) * (trophywort) * (wall pennywort) * wallwort * wartwort * water dropwort * water figwort * water pennywort * (water starwort) * waterwort * (white navelwort) * (white swallowwort) * (willowwort) * woundwort * (yellow starwort) * yellowwort

    See also

    * (projectlink)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer

    • See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    grass

    English

    (wikipedia grass)

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) 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.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  • (uncountable) A lawn.
  • (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  • (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  • (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  • (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  • The season of fresh grass; spring.
  • * Latham
    • two years old next grass
  • (obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
  • * Bible Is. xl. 7
    • Surely the people is grass .

    Synonyms

    * ''Gramineae (alternative name)

    Derived terms

    * grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrass

    See also

    * (Poaceae) *

    Verb

    (es)
  • To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  • * 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
    • He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
  • To cover with grass or with turf.
  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
    • to grass a fish