| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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| jackstraws | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: spillikins |
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| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| (noun) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth | Synonyms: drinking straw |
| (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, wheat |
| (noun) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder | - |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble |
| (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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| (noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
| (noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
| strawboard | (noun) a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp | - |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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| (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
| trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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| (noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |