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aftergrass en · NOUN

Etymology

From after- + grass.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
   • The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, part 1, page 68:
   • This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting. 1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Notes. Sonnet XVII.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:
   • For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient. 1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts of Woods, […]), page 99:

Forms

Relateds

afterfeed · aftercrop

Synonyms

aftermath · after-eatage · eddish · fog

Translations (22)

cs otava (grass that grows after the first crop) · az xora (grass that grows after the first crop) · fi odelma (grass that grows after the first crop) · pl otawa (grass that grows after the first crop) · izh ätälä (grass that grows after the first crop) · ga cluain (grass that grows after the first crop) · zlw-ocs otava (grass that grows after the first crop) · fr regain (grass that grows after the first crop) · hu sarjú (grass that grows after the first crop) · et ädal (grass that grows after the first crop) · non há (grass that grows after the first crop) · az alısın (grass that grows after the first crop) · ro otavă (grass that grows after the first crop) · fi jälkisato (grass that grows after the first crop) · nb hå (grass that grows after the first crop) · pl potraw (grass that grows after the first crop) · sh otava (grass that grows after the first crop) · fr arrière-foin (grass that grows after the first crop) · sl otava (grass that grows after the first crop) · izh oelma (grass that grows after the first crop) · fi äpäre (grass that grows after the first crop) · ru отава (grass that grows after the first crop)