straw
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Noun 4 meanings
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
A drinking straw.
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Adjective 3 meanings
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Imaginary, but presented as real.
“A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.”
Verb 2 meanings
To scatter or to spread loosely.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
Etymology
From Middle English straugh, strauȝ, straw, strawe, strea, streuw, from Old English strēaw, strēow, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread”), from *ster- (“barren, infertile”).
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STRAW at a glance
STRAW has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + W 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,180 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with straw
All rhymes- DRAW8
- WITHDRAW18
- REDRAW10
- CRAW9
- BRAW9
- OVERDRAW15
- BEDSTRAW14
- OUTDRAW11
- FOOFARAW17
- SCRAW10
- THRAW11
- JACKSTRAW25
One letter away
- STRAP7
- STRAY8
- STRAD6
- STREW8
- STROW8
- SCRAW10
- STRAE5
- STRAG6
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