English
greasegrassgreasegrass
From grease + grass, because of its oily seeds.
A compound of grease + grass
Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’
Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’
Anglo-Norman grece
Middle English grece
English grease
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-West Germanic *gras
Old English græs
Middle English gras ‘a grass’
English grass
Today it means
noun The plant Tridens flavus, a robust North American perennial bunchgrass.
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