Word Study
grassy
CIDE DICTIONARY
grassy, a.
- Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Resembling grass; green. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grassy, adj. (grassier, grassiest)
1 covered with or abounding in grass.
2 resembling grass.
3 of grass.
1 covered with or abounding in grass.
2 resembling grass.
3 of grass.
Derivative
grassiness n.
THESAURUS
grassy
aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, caespitose, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, graminaceous, grasslike, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, meadowy, moss-covered, moss-grown, mossy, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, swardy, tufted, turflike, turfy, verdant, verdured, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-greenROGET THESAURUS
grassy
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.For further exploring for "grassy" in Webster Dictionary Online