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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grassy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grassy plain
▪ The village is situated on the high grassy plains at the foot of the Sierra.
a grassy slope
▪ The children had fun rolling down a grassy slope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bank
▪ She was sitting on a grassy bank, leaning forward a little, a cigarette between her fingers, and she was speaking.
▪ You can take boat rides, walk the wharf or picnic along the rivers' grassy banks.
▪ A moment later, his shining, wet body landed half-way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing.
▪ Off the road to our left begins a grassy bank that will continue almost to the river.
▪ She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I couldn't remember what she was saying.
▪ I wondered where the grassy bank had been.
▪ Pan, seated on his grassy bank, leading the naiads and the dryads where he will.
▪ At their feet a grassy bank shelved to white sand, and a river the colour of emeralds streamed by.
field
▪ There was a wire fence ahead, with a grassy field beyond it.
▪ Beyond the glade was a grassy field with a stand of cottonwood trees beside a stream.
▪ Joining the group for 12 laps of grassy field surrounding the track, I found their easy pace to my liking.
▪ The Cadillac was standing in the middle of a small grassy field.
hill
▪ A church that stood upon a grassy hill and to which you mounted by a flight of steep stone stairs.
▪ Resler was on the stick, flaring toward the top of a grassy hill.
▪ And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
knoll
▪ With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements, I loped up the grassy knoll to the court.
▪ The mood somber on the grassy knolls, I stood, feeling like an observer, detached from the group, defeated.
▪ Mike came out and stood in the colonnade on the other side of the grassy knoll.
plain
▪ Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev.
▪ Dry grassy plains or open scrub, semi-deserts.
slope
▪ On its shallow grassy slopes butterflies are still abundant, and the old chalk-loving flowers can be found.
▪ Carry out researches and observations wherever you spot grassy slopes and lots of people sitting them to enjoy picnics.
▪ The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts.
▪ So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest.
▪ Crossing the coast road, she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall.
▪ The seed of City Earth lay here, now, before them physically before them - as they climbed the grassy slope.
▪ He strolled along the terrace below which the grassy slopes fell away steeply towards an ornamental lake.
▪ There are also grassy slopes with seats and tents for convenience of strollers.
track
▪ The West Wood was dim and silent as she trod the grassy track through it.
▪ The abbey site is approached through a gate in a country lane and along a grassy track.
▪ Further along the grassy track, half hidden behind trees, a church roof can be glimpsed.
▪ We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.
▪ The grassy track ran level, curved and dipped a little, emerged from the trees.
▪ Continue along the ridge for another two miles on grassy tracks.
▪ Turn right here leading on to a grassy track.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a grassy hill
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By that time college students and their black-caped Jesuit professors were hurrying across the grassy campus to classes.
▪ He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
▪ Resler was on the stick, flaring toward the top of a grassy hill.
▪ She went for him now, on the grassy river bank, surprising staider strolling couples.
▪ Steppes and any other open grassy country.
▪ Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path.
▪ Ted looked at him and then did this realistic slow-motion fall right on the grassy expanse to the side of the road.
▪ They landed on the little grassy strip.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grassy

Grassy \Grass"y\a.

  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
    --Spenser.

  2. Resembling grass; green.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grassy

mid-15c., from grass + -y (2).

Wiktionary
grassy

a. 1 Covered with grass. 2 Resembling grass.

WordNet
grassy
  1. adj. abounding in grass [ant: grassless]

  2. [also: grassiest, grassier]

Wikipedia
Grassy

Grassy may refer to:

Placenames:

  • Grassy, Lauderdale County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
  • Grassy, Marshall County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
  • Grassy, Missouri, unincorporated community in western Bollinger County, Missouri, United States
  • Grassy, Tasmania, small town on King Island in the Australian state of Tasmania

Geographical features:

  • Grassy Cove, enclosed valley in Cumberland County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States
  • Grassy Hill, the tenth highest hill in Hong Kong
  • Grassy Island, small, uninhabited 72-acre (29 ha) American island in the Detroit River
  • Grassy Key, island in the middle Florida Keys
  • Grassy Lake Dam, small dam operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Teton County, Wyoming
  • Grassy Range, mountain range in Jackson County, Oregon
  • Grassy Ridge, ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the U.S. state of Georgia

Usage examples of "grassy".

Not as he did now, looking at the seven hills asprawl with orange-tiled roofs, glitters of gold from gilded temple eaves, tall cypresses, umbelliferous pines, arched aqueducts, the deep blue and strongly flowing width of Father Tiber with the grassy plains of Martius and Vaticanus on either bank.

Sentinel, or sekiyr, walked Fire-bird to the Medical Center, the highest and blockiest building on the grassy grounds.

Their trek took them from tundra fells and bess plains to reedy forest lakes, from lush bogs to windy knolls and grassy meadows bright with summer blooms.

Tierra Natal and the grassy plains around it, mapping and exploiting the Amazonia aquifer and getting a toehold on the Brasilia ecosystem.

Women passed by dressed in desert garb, covered from head to foot in plain blue or brown robes, nothing shown but their eyes, while a few feet away, hunters from the grassy plains stood inspecting goods, their dark, oiled bodies naked save for a simple thong breechclout, but their vanity showed in the copper bracelets, necklaces, and earrings they wore and in their choice of weapons.

The broader path, most traveled, struck southeast along the route made by the stream, while a grassier way pushed straight east into the trees.

And because he was Bruin Bear, that most trustworthy of animals, the rebels looked at each other, nodded more or less in unison, and followed the Bear up the grassy slope away from the wrecked Welcome Station.

The land was growing higher and less grassy, the waving fields of long brown grasses giving way to short bunchgrass and huge, scraggy-barked sagebrush.

Once beyond that, the country was open bushland, grassy plains, patches of scrub, scattered gum trees with rolling country beyond.

Abigail trotted toward the grassy island in the middle of the street, which held that mandatory southern town centerpiece, the Civil War monument.

She wiped her forehead and watched as a heavy woman with five children lumbered across the grassy square of the Chickasaw County Courthouse.

They drilled apart three days, and came together on the fourth, to practice larger group movement outside the forest, on a grassy hillside.

As they came around the side of a barn and headed down the grassy slope for the road, Pablo, the pilot, waved them to a stop.

As far as he knew the ferocious folk of the interior kept the produce of the forests and grassy spaces to themselves.

The valley altered its character, becoming narrower and grassier, with the forest only in patches on infrequent promontories.