Define:Gress
Scots eedit
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Present in Early Scots as gres (compare tae early Middle Inglis gres), frae Old English græs.
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- /ˈɡrɛs/
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gress
- (coontable, uncoontable) Ony plant o the faimily Poaceae, chairacterised bi leafs that arise frae nodes in the stem an leaf bases that wap aroond the stem, especially thae growed as grund cover rather than for grain.
- (coontable) Various plants nae in faimily Poaceae that resemble gresses.
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Gress
- Tae feed on gress.
Norwegian Bokmål eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld Norse gras (“grass”), frae Proto-Germanic *grasą, frae Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“growe, acome green”).
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Gress n (definite singular Gresset, indefinite plural Gress, definite plural Gressa or Gressene)
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- “Gress” in The Bokmål Dictionary.