The Clue
Lawn greenery (5 letter answer)
The Answer
GRASS
Tags
Notes
The answer GRASS is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
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Definition
GRASS as a noun:
1. narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
2. (Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass) = German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
3. (eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass) = animal food for browsing or grazing
4. (pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane) = street names for marijuana
GRASS as a verb:
1. shoot down, of birds
2. cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their property"
3. spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
4. (grass, grass over) = cover with grass
5. feed with grass
6. (denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag) = give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"