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straw   (TTS Sound)

The noun straw has 4 senses

• straw -- (plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder)


• chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble -- (material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds)


• pale yellow, straw, wheat -- (a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white)


• straw, drinking straw -- (a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth)

The verb straw has 2 senses

• straw -- (cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm")


• strew, straw -- (spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet")

The adj straw has 1 sense

• straw -- (of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored)