Meaning: grass

Illustrative Context

There is grass growing beside the river.

Target Sense

• The most generic term for grass as a general type of plant.
• In many languages, this generic term will also be the term used to refer to grass in the more specific context of the primary food source for grazing animals (wild and/or domesticated) such as horses, cattle and sheep. Do not, however, select a lexeme that is specific to this sense of grass as animal food. Avoid, therefore, terms restricted to this narrower sense, i.e. terms equivalent to English fodder, pasture or indeed grassland, rather than just the basic word for the plant (type).