Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, made of, or like straw; consisting of straw; resembling straw.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.

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  • adjective Made of straw
  • adjective Similar to straw

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Examples

  • Beside the walkways, strawy hemispheres of grass crouch between indicative junipers.

    Siemens in the Morning « Unknowing 2010

  • In the strawy warmth of the stall he made no haste.

    A River So Long 2010

  • They had the same ideas or lack of, and the same colour hair - a like dyed strawy.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • News at Eleven: Thomas Hardy remembers sitting with other children by the fireside at midnight, listening wide-eyed to the adults tell them that the animals are kneeling now in their "strawy pen."

    News at Eleven: [Thomas Hardy] remembers sitting Rus Bowden 2006

  • News at Eleven: Thomas Hardy remembers sitting with other children by the fireside at midnight, listening wide-eyed to the adults tell them that the animals are kneeling now in their "strawy pen."

    Archive 2006-12-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company.

    Swan Song 2004

  • Rumbold scratched his ear with the three strawy jampots he held in his hand.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • And when she rose from her strawy grave to Carter's house she went

    Meeks Family Murder 1997

  • In the strawy warmth of the stall he made no haste.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • Batch plants are suitable for digesting strawy, fibrous material with a high solids content, usually in areas with low annual precipitation, and for use as simple demonstration plants.

    5. Biogas technique 1989

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