Why is grass called 'grass'?

Question

Ok then smart ****, where does the word 'grass' come from?

STOP TRYING TO BE SMART AND ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION.

Many thanks to the sensible person who posted the link to the Etymology Dictionary!

Answer 1

Because it's grass.

Answer 2

Because it's grass.


who told u that it is called grass
no grass is never called "grass"


where does your name come from why is anon called anon?


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Grass is called grass because the words sky,water,cloud,horse,road and mountain were already being used.(Everybody knows that!)


What is anon? Why do they call you anon? DUH

why are u called Anon?.scientists , ecologist or anybody has faile to answer this one .
maybe if Adam was alive He is the one who was suppossed to be responsible to answer your question , not us


Bamboo is also a grass,maybe because of its natural components,they call the grass as grass but only in english language but in different national languages it has different name!Only English people who invent the word called it grass and become the international word for it as we are using english as our main medium of global communications!


because this is grass


A more sensible question would be why marijuana is called grass. Asking why grass is called grass is something that I don't think could ever really be answered. It's like if you ask someone why there middle name is, for example, Marie, it is sometimes they were named after a relative. I don't think that you find that too often when it comes to grass.


God coulden't think of any other name !!!!


years ago somebody asked what do we call this ? The other guy said, " let's call it ....hummm...grass ! "

Answer 3

A more sensible question would be why marijuana is called grass. Asking why grass is called grass is something that I don't think could ever really be answered. It's like if you ask someone why there middle name is, for example, Marie, it is sometimes they were named after a relative. I don't think that you find that too often when it comes to grass.

Answer 4

Bamboo is also a grass,maybe because of its natural components,they call the grass as grass but only in english language but in different national languages it has different name!Only English people who invent the word called it grass and become the international word for it as we are using english as our main medium of global communications!

Answer 5

There is a song with the words '"roll me over in the clover and ..."

Well the clover was just a cover up for grass.

Both the male and female were chasing each other in the stuff when all they could think about each other when running up from behind was "GReat _ _ _. This was shortened (no pun) to grass.

Then they rolled over and did it again.

Grass you very much, or is that mulch?

Answer 6

grass, any plant of the family Gramineae, an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in great areas of low rainfall throughout the world: the prairies and plains of North America, the savannas and pampas of South America, the steppes and plains of Eurasia, and the veldt of Africa.

Most grasses are annual or perennial herbs with fibrous roots and, often, rhizomes. The stems are always noded and are typically hollow and swollen at the nodes, although many genera have solid stems. The leaves have two parts: a sheath surrounding the stem (called the culm in grasses); and a blade, usually flat and linear. The flowers are of a unique form, the inflorescence being subdivided into spikelets each containing one or more tiny florets. (In other flowering plants the inflorescences are clusters of separate flowers, never spikelets.) The dry seedlike fruit is called a caryopsis, or grain.

Economically the grass family is of far greater importance than any other. The cereal grasses, e.g., wheat, rice, corn, oats, barley, and rye, provide the grain that is the staple food of most of mankind and the major type of feed. The grasses also include most of the hay and pasture plants, e.g., sorghum, timothy, bent grass, bluegrass, orchard grass, and fescue. Popularly the word grass is used chiefly for these latter and for the lawn grass types; it is also loosely applied to plants which are not true grasses (e.g., clover and alfalfa) but which are similarly grown.

Molasses and sugar are products of sugarcane and sorghum, both grasses. Many liquors are made from grains and molasses. Plants of the grass family are also a source of industrial ethyl alcohol, corn starch and byproducts, newsprint and other types of paper, and numerous lesser items. Especially in the tropics, species of reed, bamboo (one of the few woody types), and other genera are used for thatching and construction. As food, grasses are as important for wildlife as for domesticated animals. They are able to survive grazing because their intercalary meristems are set back from the apex of the plant. Because of the tenacious nature of their large underground root system, grasses (e.g., beach grass) are often introduced to prevent erosion. Grasses are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Gramineae.

See U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Grass: The Yearbook of Agriculture (1948); A. S. Hitchcock, A Manual of Grasses of the United States (2 vol., 2d ed. 1971); J. W. Bews, The World's Grasses (1929, repr. 1973).

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2006, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.



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Answer 7

Grass:
Etymology: Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English grOwan to grow

Answer 8

read this in a book before... well for got the name of the guy who came up the name grass that but i do remember in that book he said something like "I name it Grass because is Green like (G)"

Answer 9

grass
O.E. græs, gærs "herb, plant, grass," from P.Gmc. grasan (cf. O.N., Ger., Goth. gras), from PIE *ghros- "young shoot, sprout," from base *gro-/*gre- "that which grows" (cf. L. gramen "grass"); related to grow and green. Sense of "marijuana" is first recorded 1938, Amer.Eng. Grasshopper is O.E. gærshoppa (cf. M.Swed. gräshoppare, Ger. gräshupfer); as a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii.5. Grass widow (1528) was originally "discarded mistress" (cf. Ger. Strohwitwe, lit. "straw-widow"), probably in allusion to casual bedding. Sense of "married woman whose husband is absent" is from 1846.
"[G]rasse wydowes ... be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre and neuer take but one at onys." [More, 1528]

Answer 10

Grass is called grass because the words sky,water,cloud,horse,road and mountain were already being used.(Everybody knows that!)