Grass (disambiguation)
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Grass may refer to:
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Plants:
- GrassGrassGrasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the Poaceae family, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns ...
, a common name for plants with narrow blade-shaped leaves - Any of a number of plants in the family PoaceaePoaceaeThe Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
with narrow blade-shaped leaves, or other unrelated plants of similar appearance - Cannabis (drug)Cannabis (drug)Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...
, a psychoactive drug also called marijuana
People:
- Günter GrassGünter GrassGünter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...
(born 1927), German author and playwright
Locations:
- Grass Valley, CaliforniaGrass Valley, California-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Grass Valley had a population of 12,860. The population density was 2,711.3 people per square mile . The racial makeup of Grass Valley was 11,493 White, 46 African American, 208 Native American, 188 Asian, 9 Pacific Islander, 419 from other...
- Grass Mountain (Vermont)Grass Mountain (Vermont)Grass Mountain is a mountain located in Bennington County, Vermont.Grass Mountain is flanked to the north by Big Spruce Mountain, and to the southeast by Spruce Mountain....
- Grass Range, MontanaGrass Range, MontanaGrass Range is a town in Fergus County, Montana, United States. The population was 149 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Grass Range is located at ....
Entertainment:
- Grass (1925 film)Grass (1925 film)Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a silent documentary film which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures. It is considered one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films. It was written by Richard Carver and...
, a documentary about the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran - Grass (1999 film)Grass (1999 film)Grass: History of Marijuana is a 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann, premiered in Toronto Film Festival, about the history of the United States government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.-Overview:...
, a documentary about marijuana - Grass (album)Grass (album)Grass is the 10th studio album by Keller Williams, released in 2005. On Grass, Keller is accompanied by The Keels, a husband and wife duo named Larry and Jenny Keel. On this album, Larry Keel, Keller's childhood friend, plays lead guitar, Jenny Keel plays bass, and Keller plays rhythm guitar...
, a 2005 album by Keller Williams - "Grass" (song)Grass (song)"Grass" is the first single from Animal Collective's 2005 album, Feels. Upon its release, it was showered with critical praise for its delicate balance of melodic pop sensibilities and discordant yelping. Pitchfork Media listed the song at #31 on its list of , claiming it is "as infectious as...
, a single by the band Animal Collective - Grass (TV series)Grass (TV series)Grass is a sitcom starring Simon Day which originally aired in 2003 on BBC Three. Day plays Billy Bleach, a Londoner who is relocated to rural England under a witness protection program after he witnesses a gangland killing...
, a BBC television series - "Grass", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book BabelBabel (book)Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...
- Grass (novel)Grass (novel)Grass is a 1989 science fiction novel by Sheri S. Tepper. Nominated for both the Hugo and Locus awards in 1990, in 2002 it was included in the SF Masterworks collection...
, a novel in The Arbai Trilogy by Sheri Tepper - Grass, a 1968 independent film by Clarke MackeyClarke MackeyClarke Mackey is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, author and educator. His 1971 feature film The Only Thing You Know is considered a key film in the early period of Canadian cinema....
Other uses:
- Grass (card game), a cannabis-themed card game similar to Mille Bornes
- GRASS (programming language), a programming language used to script 2D vector graphics animations
- GRASS GISGRASS GISGRASS GIS is a free, open source geographical information system capable of handling raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data....
, an open source geographic information system - Supergrass (informer)Supergrass (informer)Supergrass is a slang term for an informer, which originated in London. Informers had been referred to as "grasses" since the late-1930s, and the "super" prefix was coined by journalists in the early 1970s to describe those informers from the city's underworld who testified against former...
, a criminal informer - GrasGrasGras is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.-Population:-References:*...
and GrasseGrasse-See also:*Route Napoléon*Ancient Diocese of Grasse*Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department-External links:*...
, communes in France