Dictionary Entry
straw
straw is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To spread or scatter. See Strew Strow.
- 2noun
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
- 3noun
The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
- 4noun
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
- 5noun
a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
- 6noun
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
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- 7noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- 8noun
plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- 9verb
spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
"strew toys all over the carpet"
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- 10verb
cover or provide with or as if with straw
"cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
- 11adjective
of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
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