straw
1. plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder (Freq. 10)
• Hypernyms:
plant fiber, plant fibre
• Substance Holonyms:
padding, cushioning
2. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble
• Derivationally related forms:
shuck (for: shuck), husk (for: husk), chaffy (for: chaff)
• Hypernyms:
plant material, plant substance
• Hyponyms:
bran
3. a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
• Syn:
drinking straw
• Hypernyms:
tube, tubing
4. a variable yellow tint;
dull yellow, often diluted with white
• Syn:
pale yellow, wheat
• Hypernyms:
yellow, yellowness
1. cover or provide with or as if with straw
- cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm
• Hypernyms:
cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
- strew toys all over the carpet
• Syn:
strew
• Derivationally related forms:
strewing (for: strew)
• Hypernyms:
spread, distribute
• Hyponyms:
bestrew, litter
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
of a pale yellow color like straw;
straw-colored (Freq. 1)
• Similar to:
chromatic
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