the.com/grassy
the texture that turned a Dallas knoll into America's favorite unsolved sentence.
means Covered with, resembling, or characterized by grass.
from From Old English 'gærs' (grass) plus the adjective-forming '-y,' the same suffix that turns 'rain' into 'rainy' and 'mud' into 'muddy.' 'Grass' itself belongs to a deep Germanic family — cousin to German 'Gras' and Dutch 'gras' — and is likely related to 'grow' and 'green,' all tracing back to a root meaning to sprout. So 'grassy' is literally 'the quality of the green-growing-stuff,' a word as old and ordinary as the lawns it describes.
- knoll fame
- Dallas grassy knoll obsessed JFK conspiracy theorists for decades
- smell chemistry
- fresh-cut grass scent is the plant screaming distress
- surface speed
- Wimbledon's grass courts are tennis's fastest playing surface
- taste note
- wine critics call young Sauvignon Blanc aggressively grassy
serengeti — 1.5 million wildebeest migrate annually across this 30,000 km² grassland in tanzania and kenya
pampas of argentina — 750,000 km² of fertile grassland in argentina and uruguay, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions