Difference between Hay and Grass

What is the difference between Hay and Grass?

Hay as a noun is grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. while Grass as a noun is any plant of the family poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Hay

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.

Grass

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.A lawn.Marijuana.An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

We hope you now know whether to use Hay or Grass in your sentence.

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