Definition of straw

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Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..

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Oaten :: Oaten (a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe..
Streak :: Stre (n.) Straw.
Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
Oat :: Oat (n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.
Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..
Rosaceous :: Rosaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces..
Windlestraw :: Windlestraw (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis..
Native :: Native (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Cobwall :: Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.
Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..
Tick :: Tick (n.) The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil..
Fescue :: Fescue (n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read..
Fodder :: Fodder (v.t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc..
Stallation :: Stallage (n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw..
Karpholite :: Karpholite (n.) A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.
Stramineous :: Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.
Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..
Winter :: Winter (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw..
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