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straw
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noun (n)

  • plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder(noun.substance)
    source: wordnet30
  • material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds(noun.substance)
    Synonym:
    chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble
    source: wordnet30
  • a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white(noun.attribute)
    Synonym:
    pale yellow, wheat
    source: wordnet30
  • a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth(noun.artifact)
    Synonym:
    drinking straw
    source: wordnet30
  • A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored(adj.all)
    source: wordnet30

verb (v)

  • cover or provide with or as if with straw(verb.contact)
    Example:
    Cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm.
    source: wordnet30
  • spread by scattering ((verb.contact)
    Example:
    Straw.
    Synonym:
    strew
    source: wordnet30
  • To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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