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  • 71Grass Crown — For the novel by Colleen McCullough see The Grass Crown (novel).The Grass Crown or Blockade Crown (Latin: corona obsidionalis or corona graminea ) was the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman empire …

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  • 72Grass — /grahs/; Ger. /grddahs/, n. Günter (Wilhelm) /goon teuhr wil helm/; Ger. /gyuun teuhrdd vil helm/, born 1927, German novelist, poet, and playwright. * * * I Any of many low, green, nonwoody plants that make up the families Poaceae (or Gramineae) …

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  • 73Grass Patch, Western Australia — Infobox Australian Place | type = town name = Grass Patch state = wa caption = lga = Shire of Esperance postcode = 6446 est = 1923 pop = elevation= 218 maxtemp = mintemp = rainfall = stategov = Eyre fedgov = Kalgoorlie dist1 = 783 dir1 = SE… …

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  • 74wheat — /wit / (say weet) noun 1. the grain of a widely distributed cereal grass, genus Triticum, especially T. aestivum (T. sativum), used extensively in the form of flour for white bread, cakes, pastry, etc. 2. the plant, which bears the edible grain… …

  • 75wheat — hwɪːt /w n. cereal grass cultivated for its edible grains; edible grain of the wheat plant that is used in the production of flour and flour products …

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  • 76wheat — [[t](h)wit, wit[/t]] n. 1) pln coo the grain of any cereal grass of the genus Triticum, esp. T. aestivum, used in the form of flour 2) pln the plant itself • Etymology: bef. 900; ME whete, OE hwǣte, c. OS hwēti, OHG weizi, ON hveiti, Go hwaiteis; …

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  • 77wheat poisoning — noun : grass tetany affecting cattle grazing on wheat …

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  • 78wheat thrips — noun : any of numerous thrips that infest wheat and damage the grain: as a. : flower thrips b. : grain thrips c. : grass thrips …

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  • 79grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain,… …

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  • 80grass roots — Synonyms and related words: agricultural region, arable land, beginning, black belt, citrus belt, commencement, conception, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, derivation, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fruit belt, genesis,… …

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