straw
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Other meanings
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 kind of
- plant fiber
Related words
- bedstraw
- broomstraw
- neststraw
- oatstraw
- strawbale
- strawbed
- strawbreaker
- strawcraft
- strawfork
- strawful
- strawless
- strawlike
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "strēaw".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “straw” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.