grass top

plural grass tops · alternative grasstop

1. countableThe tip of a blade or stalk of grass.

   There was nothing to shoot at; but a moment afterward I saw a pair of horns through the grass tops, in such a position that it was evident the owner was looking at me.

   1910, Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1910, page 521

2. uncountableAn expanse covered in grass.

   She glides along, her skirt touching the grass top as she sways to the beat of unwritten songs.

   2008, Chris Fabry, Dogwood, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 154