aftergrass

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noun

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounaftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

plural aftergrasses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

    The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet

    1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, part 1, page 68
    2 more examples

    For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.

    1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts of Woods, […]), page 99

    This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.

    1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Notes. Sonnet XVII.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, pages 44–45

    Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, after-eatage

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

Also see

Origin

Translations

Czech otava
  • otavagrass that grows after the first crop
Estonian ädal
  • ädalgrass that grows after the first crop
Finnish odelma, äpäre
  • odelmagrass that grows after the first crop
  • äpäregrass that grows after the first crop
  • jälkisatograss that grows after the first crop
French arrière-foin, regain
  • arrière-foingrass that grows after the first crop
  • regaingrass that grows after the first crop
Hungarian sarjú
  • sarjúgrass that grows after the first crop
Irish cluain
  • cluaingrass that grows after the first crop
Norwegian Bokmål hå
  • hågrass that grows after the first crop
Polish potraw, otawa
  • potrawgrass that grows after the first crop
  • otawagrass that grows after the first crop
Romanian otavă
  • otavăgrass that grows after the first crop
Russian отава
  • отава (otava)grass that grows after the first crop
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APA

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