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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Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..
Republican :: Republican (n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw..
Hawm :: Hawm (n.) See Haulm, straw..
Vetchy :: Vetchy (a.) Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.
Barrack :: Barrack (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc..
Leghorn :: Leghorn (n.) A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation..
Arbute :: Arbute (n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree..
Sennit :: Sennit (n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
Muggy :: Muggy (superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw..
Strawy :: Strawworm (n.) A caddice worm.
Jalons :: "Jalons (n. pl.) Long poles, topped with wisps of straw, used as landmarks and signals..
Festucine :: Festucine (a.) Of a straw color; greenish yellow.
Matting :: Matting (v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc..
Lady''s Bedstraw :: Lady's bedstraw () The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels..
Sheaf :: Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw..
Stallation :: Stallage (n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw..
Straw-cutter :: Straw-colored (a.) Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n..
Stramineous :: Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.
Helm :: Helm (n.) See Haulm, straw..
Streak :: Stre (n.) Straw.
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