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Grass refers to the many species of plants in the family Poaceae.
Grass may also refer to:
Plants
[edit]- Grass is also commonly used in the names of other plants, some but not all with narrow leaves, including:
- Blue-eyed grasses, Sisyrinchium in the family Iridaceae
- China grass, Boehmeria nivea, a nettle grown for fibre, in family Urticaceae
- Cotton grass, Eriophorum spp., in family Cyperaceae.
- Deergrass (disambiguation):
- Rhexia spp., in family Melastomataceae
- Trichophorum spp., in family Cyperaceae, particularly Trichophorum cespitosum
- Ditch grass, Ruppia maritima, in family Ruppiaceae
- Eelgrass:
- Zostera in family Zosteraceae
- Vallisneria in family Hydrocharitaceae
- Golden-eye grass, Curculigo orchioides, in family Hypoxidaceae
- Good Friday Grass, Luzula campestris, in family Juncaceae.
- Goosegrass, Galium aparine in the family Rubiaceae
- Grass (cannabis), a slang name for cannabis (drug)
- Grass of Parnassus, Parnassia, in family Celastraceae
- Knotgrass, Polygonum spp., in family Polygonaceae
- Mondo grass, Ophiopogon japonicus, in family Asparagaceae
- Nutgrass, Cyperus rotundus, in family Cyperaceae
- Pepper grass, Lepidium spp., in family Brassicaceae
- Sawgrass, Cladium spp., in family Cyperaceae
- Scurvy-grass, Cochlearia spp., in family Brassicaceae
- Scurvy-grass sorrel, Oxalis enneaphylla in family Oxalidaceae
- Seagrasses in four families, Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae, or Cymodoceaceae
- Sleeping grass, Mimosa pudica, in family Fabaceae
- Whitlow grass, Draba and Erophila spp., in family Brassicaceae:
- Xyridaceae, known as the yellow-eyed grass family
People with the surname
[edit]- Alex Grass (1927–2009), American businessman and lawyer
- Arthur Grass (1897–1994), English-born Brazilian cricketer
- Frank J. Grass (born 1951), American general
- Günter Grass (1927–2015), German author and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
- John Grass (1837–1918), Native American Lakota leader
- Philippe Grass (1801–1876), French sculptor
- Vincent Grass (born 1949), Belgian actor
Places
[edit]Art, entertainment, and media
[edit]Film
[edit]- Grass (1925 film), a documentary about the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran
- Grass (1999 film), a documentary about marijuana
- Grass (1968), an independent film by Clarke Mackey
- Grass (2018 film), a South Korean film
Games
[edit]- Grass (card game), a cannabis-themed card game similar to Mille Bornes
Literature
[edit]- Grass (novel), a novel in The Arbai Trilogy by Sheri Tepper
- "Grass", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
- "Grass", a poem by Carl Sandburg
Music
[edit]- "Grass", Russian art song by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801–1848)
- Grass (album), a 2005 album by Keller Williams
- "Grass" (Animal Collective song), a single by the band Animal Collective
- "Grass" (XTC song), a 1986 single by XTC, written Moulding, from the Skylarking album
- "Grass" (Robert Wyatt song) single, words by poet Ivor Cutler 1981
Television
[edit]- Grass (TV series), a 2003 BBC television series
Computing and technology
[edit]- GRASS (programming language), a programming language used for animations
- GRASS GIS, a geographic information system
- Gradient Recall Acquisition using Steady States, a form of magnetic resonance imaging
Slang usage
[edit]- Grass, grasser or Supergrass (informant) in the UK, an informant, especially one criminal informing on another, to the police or other authorities.
- Grass, an informal name for marijuana.
Other uses of the above
[edit]- Grass dance, a Native American style of pow wow dancing
See also
[edit]- Gras (disambiguation)
- Grasse, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department (of which it is a sub-prefecture), on the French Riviera