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Etymology
Old English streaw|str�aw, from Germanic *strawam �that which is strewn�. Cognate with Dutch stroo, German Stroh, Swedish strå.
Pronunciation
IPA|/str�:/
audio|en-us-straw.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
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- countable A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- uncountable Such dried stalks considered collectively.
- countable A drinking straw.
- colour a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
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Translations
trans-top|dried stalks considered collectively
Albanian: kashtë f
Bosnian: slama#Bosnian|slama f
Catalan: palla f
Croatian: slama#Croatian|slama f
Danish: halm
Dutch: stro
Esperanto: pajlo
Finnish: olki
French: paille f
German: Stroh n
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Hungarian: szalma
Italian: paglia f
Japanese: � (��, wara)
Korean: � (jip)
Romanian: paie f
Russian: �олома (solóma) f
Sardinian: palla f
Serbian:
Slovak: slama f
Spanish: paja f
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trans-top|a dried stalk of a cereal plant
Czech: sláma f
Finnish: olki
French: paille f
German: Strohhalm m
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Italian: festuca f
Japanese: � (��, wara)
Korean: � (jip)
Kurdish: KUchar|کا
Russian: �оломина (solómina) f
Spanish paja f
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trans-top|drinking straw
See drinking straw
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trans-top|colour
Finnish: oljenvärinen
German: strohfarben, strohgelb
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Japanese: ��, ��� (����, warairo)
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Adjective
en-adj-notcomp
- Made of straw.
#: straw hat
- (colour) of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Derived terms
top3
cheese straw
draw the short straw
grasp at straws
jackstraw
the last straw
the final straw
make bricks without straw
man of straw
mid3
pine straw
silly straw
straw boss
straw buyer
straw hat
a straw in the wind
straw man
straw mushroom
straw poll
mid3
the straw that broke the camel's back
straw vote
straw wine
strawboard
straw-coloured
strawflower
strawworm
windlestraw
Related terms
top3
balibuntal
corn dolly
etiolated
fescue
mid3
huarache
paillasse
paillette
pallet
mid3
sacaton
stipule
stubble
zori
See also
top3
buntal
leghorn
mid3
parabuntal
rick
mid3
skep
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