Grassy
['grɑːsɪ] or ['ɡræsi]
Definition
(a.) Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
(a.) Resembling grass; green.
Typist: Natalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Gramineous, graminaceous.
Typist: Sanford
Examples
- The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We looked again, and saw, through the arbor, an endless stretch of garden, and shrubbery, and grassy lawn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mary was in a grassy corner of the garden, where there was a swing loftily hung between two pear-trees. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The lower slopes of the eminence melted imperceptibly into a grassy plain, the place of the meeting of three rivers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I entered with pleasure its wide and grassy streets. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The road was smooth, it was bordered by trees, fields, and grassy meadows, and the soft air was filled with the odor of flowers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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