Define:Gress
Appearance
Scots
[eedit soorce]Alternative forms
[eedit soorce]Etymology
[eedit soorce]Present in Early Scots as gres (compare tae early Middle Inglis gres), frae Old English græs.
Pronunciation
[eedit soorce]- /ˈɡrɛs/
Noon
[eedit soorce]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.
Verb
[eedit soorce]Gress
- Tae feed on gress.
Norwegian Bokmål
[eedit soorce]Etymology
[eedit soorce]Frae Auld Norse gras (“grass”), frae Proto-Germanic *grasą, frae Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“growe, acome green”).
Alternative forms
[eedit soorce]Noun
[eedit soorce]Gress n (definite singular Gresset, indefinite plural Gress, definite plural Gressa or Gressene)
Derived terms
[eedit soorce]References
[eedit soorce]- “Gress” in The Bokmål Dictionary.