Definitions for grasses
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1. grassesnoun

   Plural form of grass.

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1. grasses

   Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, barley, and millet as well as feed for meat-producing animals. They provide, through direct human consumption, just over one-half (51%) of all dietary energy; rice provides 20%, wheat supplies 20%, maize (corn) 5.5%, and other grains 6%. Some members of the Poaceae are used as building materials (bamboo, thatch, and straw); others can provide a source of biofuel, primarily via the conversion of maize to ethanol. Grasses have stems that are hollow except at the nodes and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks. The lower part of each leaf encloses the stem, forming a leaf-sheath. The leaf grows from the base of the blade, an adaptation allowing it to cope with frequent grazing. Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant are estimated to constitute 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Grasses are also an important part of the vegetation in many other habitats, including wetlands, forests and tundra. Though they are commonly called "grasses", groups such as the seagrasses, rushes and sedges fall outside this family. The rushes and sedges are related to the Poaceae, being members of the order Poales, but the seagrasses are members of order Alismatales. However, all of them belong to the monocot group of plants.

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1. gassers

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grasses in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grasses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of grasses in a Sentence

1. Bill Ryall:

   The pool looks like it's just this body of water in the ground, it's amazing when you swim in it because you're really seeing almost nothing but the sky and the grasses.

2. Tran Minh Tien:

   Right from the start, I formed this idea around the fact that the harvesting can never exceed the grasses' natural reproduction rate, nature has to have enough time to recover as well.

3. Umberto Eco:

   There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

4. Shawna Hartman:

   This is real rough country out here, and the Black Hawks are helping us get water into areas we had difficulty getting to, there are deep canyons, drainages and gullies that are full of heavy fuels like prairie grasses and red cedar trees. They can hold the heat for a long time and let the fire jump from one place to another.

5. Mayra Peña Lindsay:

   You've got sea grasses, corals, manatees, all sorts of protected birds.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grasses
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasses