Meanings
plural aftergrasses
- 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 682 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 99This 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 44–45Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, after-eatage
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
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
Cite this entry
aftergrass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aftergrass
“aftergrass.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aftergrass. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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