Word: straw
Phonetic:
/stɹɔː/Listen:
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Such dried stalks considered collectively.
A drinking straw.
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
Made of straw. Example: straw hat
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Imaginary, but presented as real. Example: A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
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