Straw

Noun

 * 1)  A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
 * 2)  Such dried stalks considered collectively.
 * 3)  A drinking straw.
 * 4) a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Adjective

 * 1) Made of straw.
 * straw hat
 * 1) Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Derived terms

 * cheese straw
 * draw the short straw
 * grasp at straws
 * jackstraw
 * the last straw
 * the final straw
 * make bricks without straw
 * man of straw


 * pine straw
 * silly straw
 * straw boss
 * straw buyer
 * straw hat
 * a straw in the wind
 * straw man
 * straw mushroom
 * straw poll


 * the straw that broke the camel's back
 * straw vote
 * straw wine
 * strawboard
 * straw-coloured
 * strawflower
 * strawworm
 * windlestraw

Related terms

 * balibuntal
 * corn dolly
 * etiolated
 * fescue


 * huarache
 * paillasse
 * paillette
 * pallet


 * sacaton
 * stipule
 * stubble
 * zori

Adjectives for Straw
patient; plaiting; helpful; apparent; damp; frowzy; synthetic; oaten.

Verbs for Straw
bale—; bed with—; bleach—; discard— embed in—; glean—; macerate—; plait— scatter—; shed—; stuff with—; thresh— weave—; —insures; —litters; —pads; — protects; —thatches.

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, bibelot, bird seed, bit, bole, bran, brass farthing, broadcast, bubble, buff, buff-yellow, butt, butt end, button, canary, canary-yellow, candle ends, cane, carpophore, cat food, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cent, chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, citron, citron-yellow, cobweb, cork, corn, cream, creamy, culm, curio, debris, detritus, disseminate, dog food, down, drainpipe, dust, eatage, ecru, efflux tube, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy, fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed, fig, filings, fire hose, flaxen, fleabite, flue, flue pipe, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol, footstalk, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funicule, funiculus, funnel, fuzz, garden hose, gas pipe, gaud, gewgaw, gilded, gilt, gimcrack, gold, gold-colored, golden, gossamer, grain, hair, halfpenny, haulm, hay, hill of beans, holdover, hose, hosepipe, husks, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, leafstalk, leavings, leftovers, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, mash, meal, minikin, mockery, molehill, mote, nipple, oats, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, odds and ends, offscourings, or, organ pipe, orts, parings, pasturage, pasture, pedicel, peduncle, peppercorn, pet food, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, provender, rags, rap, red cent, reed, reed pipe, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, row of pins, rubbish, ruins, rump, rush, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sawdust, scatter, scourings, scraps, scratch, scratch feed, seedstalk, shadow, shavings, shit, siamese, siamese connection, silage, siphon, slops, snap, sneeshing, snorkel, soil pipe, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw-colored, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tap, thistledown, tigella, toy, trace, trifle, trinket, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestige, waste, waste pipe, water pipe, wheat, whim-wham, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish

Etymology
Old English strēaw, from Germanic *strawam ‘that which is strewn’. Cognate with Dutch stro, German Stroh, Swedish strå.

Noun

 * Crimean Tatar: toban
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: õlekõrs
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: festuca ,
 * Japanese: 藁 (わら, wara)
 * Korean: 짚 (jip)


 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: salms
 * Lithuanian: šiaudas
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, hasır
 * Welsh: gwelltyn


 * Albanian: kashtë
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: palla
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: põhk
 * Finnish:, pahna
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 藁 (わら, wara)


 * Korean: 짚 (jip)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: palla
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: slama
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, hasır, balya
 * Welsh: gwellt


 * Finnish:
 * German: strohfarben, strohgelb


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 藁色, わら色 (わらいろ, warairo)

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: olki-, oljesta tehty


 * Russian: соломенный


 * Finnish:


 * Russian: соломенный

Anagrams

 * swart
 * warts