different between grass vs vetiver

English

Etymology

From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (“grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *gras (“grass”), from Proto-Germanic *gras? (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gräs, IPA^(key): /????s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?????s]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [???ä?s], [?????s]
• • Rhymes: -??s
• enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??æs/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [???æs], [?????s], [???e?s]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [???as], [???æs]
  • Rhymes: -æs

Noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grass
2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. (uncountable) A lawn.
4. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
5. (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

6. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
   • 1960, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Radarman 3 & 2 (volume 1, page 49)

     The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.

   • 1963, Analysis of Weapons (page 61)

     Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.

8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

   Synonyms: breakup, spring, springtime

9. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.

   Synonym: ephemera
10. (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. (mining) The surface of a mine.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: gras, garas
• ? Fiji Hindi: giraas

Translations

See also

• Poaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Grass (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

   Synonyms: flatten, floor, lay low, lay out, knock down, knock out, knock over, strike down
2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rat out
3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
   • 1903, John Buchan, The African Colony

     Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]

Translations

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• gras (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?. Cognate with German Gras, English grass.

Noun

grass m

1. (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) grass

References

• “grass” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

Noun

grass m

1. fat

English

Alternative forms

• vetyver, vetivert (the essential oil)

Etymology

From French vétyver (older spelling) or vétiver, from Tamil ?????????? (ve??iv?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?t?v?/

Noun

vetiver (countable and uncountable, plural vetivers)

1. The grass Chrysopogon zizanioides ( <= Vetiveria zizanioides), which is native to India, but planted throughout the tropics for its fragrant roots and for erosion control.
   • 2003, Anand Akhila, Mumkum Rani, 4: Chemical Conatituents and Essential Oil Biogenisis in Vetiveria zizanioides, Massimo Maffei (editor), Vetiveria: The Genus Vetiveria, page 73,

     Two types of vetiver have been found in India – (i) flowering or seeding vetiver which grows wild in North India, and (ii) non-flowering or non-seeding vetiver which is cultivated in South India.

   • 2007, R. Sinha, et al., Phytoremediation: Role of Plants in Site Management, S.N. Singh, R. D. Tripathi, Environmental Bioremediation Technologies, page 328,

     Vetiver can easily thrive in wetlands and can be used in the constructed wetlands for removal of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and heavy metals from the polluted storm water, municipal and industrial wastewater, and effluents from abattoirs, feedlots, piggeries and other intensive livestock industries.

   • 2008, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Principles of Soil Conservation and Management, page 237,

     Vetiver barriers are planted in 0.50–1m wide strips to minimize the land area under the barrier. Vetiver grass is the only species that is effective for controlling soil erosion on steep terrains (30 and 60% slope). Vetiver strips are also used as windbreaks.

2. The aromatic root of the grass.
3. An essential oil derived from the root; the fragrance of the oil.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612,

     She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening.

   • 2007, Parvesh Handa, Be Your Own Beautician, page 132,

     A sweet scent which relieves stress, tension and headache, promotes restful sleep, heals the skin, lowers high blood pressure and cures sunburn (when blended with cedarwood, clove, clary sage, pine, geranium, vetiver and patchouli).

   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, page 311,

     […] it came in a joyful fuzz of hair spray and noise, with a delicious, dissonant Habanita-like base of patchouli-vetiver-vanilla putting a growl in its voice.

Synonyms

• cuscus

Derived terms

• vetivene
• vetiverol
• vetivone

Translations

Italian

Noun

vetiver m (invariable)

1. vetiver

Anagrams

• vertevi, vivrete