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straw

noun

1 straw

Plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder.

Roget 320: levity; lightness etc. adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility.    feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, ... show more

Dutch: stro
Polish: słoma

2 straw

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.

synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble.

Roget 643: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.    triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; ... show more

Dutch: kaf, stoppel, stro, strohalm, stronk, strootje
Polish: plewa

3 straw

A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white.

synonyms: pale yellow, wheat.

4 straw

A thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth.

synonym: drinking straw.

Dutch: rietje
Polish: słomka

verb

1 straw

Cover or provide with or as if with straw.

2 straw

Spread by scattering (:
— Straw.

synonym: strew.

Roget 73: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, ... show more

adjective

1 straw

Of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored.

Polish: słomkowy, słomianożółty, słomkowożółty, paliowy


Moby thesaurus: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, adjutage, afterglow, afterimage, air, anthrophore, aureate, auric, axis, bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bestrew ... show more.

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