ruoho — meaning in English

English meaning

• grass noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
• herb noun A plant used to flavor food, especially the leaves.
• pot noun A round container, usually with a handle, used for cooking or holding things such as plants.
• tree noun A tall woody plant with a single trunk and branches.
• wort noun A plant, especially one used for food or medicine — often the second half of a plant's name, as in "St. John's wort."

Senses

ruoho is used for these senses in English:

• blade of grass A single long, narrow leaf of a plant described by the mass noun grass.
• grass (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
• grass (uncountable) A lawn.
• grass (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
• herb (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
• pot (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
• tree (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
• wort (archaic, or, historical) Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.

grass — full definition

1. noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
2. noun Marijuana (informal).
3. noun British informal: an informer who reports criminals or wrongdoers to the authorities.
4. verb British informal: to inform on someone to the police or another authority.

herb — full definition

1. noun A plant used to flavor food, especially the leaves.
2. noun A plant used in traditional or alternative medicine.

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