What is another word for straw?
588 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ stɹˈɔː], [ stɹˈɔː], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈɔː]
The word "straw" is commonly used to describe the dried stalks of grain crops that are used for bedding, thatching roofs or as a building material. However, there are a number of synonyms for the word "straw" which can be used to describe these dried plant materials, including the words "stalks", "halm", "stem," and "rush". Other alternatives include "hay", "fodder", "grass", "sedge", "reed", and "cornstalks", although some of these may refer more specifically to the dried grasses used for animal feed as opposed to building materials. Whatever word one may choose, it is important to remember that straw has been a crucial material in human history for thousands of years.
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Similar words for straw:
- blond (adjective)
- yellow (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- blond/blonde (adjective)
- buff (adjective)
- gold/golden (adjective)
- yellowish (adjective)
- blonde (noun)
- feed (noun)
- hat (noun)
- omen (noun)
- prefigurement (noun)
- provender (noun)
- tube (noun)
Synonyms for Straw:
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adj.
• blond • yellow- Aurin ,
- Cream-colored ,
- Xanthic ,
- amber ,
- buttery ,
- champagne ,
- chartreuse ,
- citron ,
- creamy ,
- crocus ,
- dandelion ,
- ecru ,
- fallow ,
- gilded ,
- gold ,
- golden ,
- goldenrod ,
- honey ,
- honey-colored ,
- jasmine ,
- jaundiced ,
- lemon ,
- maize ,
- mustard ,
- primrose ,
- saffron ,
- sallow ,
- sandy ,
- sulfur ,
- sunny ,
- sunshine ,
- tawny ,
- yellow .
- fair haired ,
- fairhaired ,
- golden haired ,
- goldenhaired ,
- more albino ,
- more auricomous ,
- more bleached ,
- more champagne ,
- more flaxen ,
- more golden haired ,
- more golden-haired ,
- more goldenhaired ,
- more platinum ,
- more sandy haired ,
- more sandy-haired ,
- more sandyhaired ,
- more strawberry ,
- more yellow haired ,
- more yellow-haired ,
- more yellowhaired ,
- most albino ,
- most auricomous ,
- most bleached ,
- most champagne ,
- most flaxen ,
- most golden haired ,
- most golden-haired ,
- most goldenhaired ,
- most platinum ,
- most sandy haired ,
- most sandy-haired ,
- most sandyhaired ,
- most strawberry ,
- most yellow haired ,
- most yellow-haired ,
- most yellowhaired ,
- sandy haired ,
- sandyhaired ,
- strawest ,
- washedout ,
- yellow haired ,
- yellowhaired .
- more canary ,
- more ecru ,
- more lemon ,
- more yellow brown ,
- more yellow-brown ,
- more yellowbrown ,
- most canary ,
- most ecru ,
- most lemon ,
- most yellow brown ,
- most yellow-brown ,
- most yellowbrown ,
- ochrer ,
- ochrest ,
- yellow brown ,
- yellowbrown .
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n.
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- arable ,
- buckwheat ,
- buri ,
- cash crop ,
- combine ,
- crop ,
- crop circle ,
- crop rotation ,
- cultivate ,
- cultivated ,
- jipijapa ,
- jute ,
- palm ,
- palmetto ,
- pea ,
- raffia ,
- rice ,
- rye .
- Corns ,
- animal food ,
- barleys ,
- meals ,
- provisions ,
- silages ,
- vittles .
- chapeaus ,
- head gears ,
- head pieces ,
- head-gear ,
- head-gears ,
- head-piece ,
- head-pieces ,
- headgears ,
- millineries ,
- stove pipes ,
- tam o'shanters ,
- tam oshanter ,
- tam oshanters ,
- ten gallon ,
- ten gallons ,
- ten-gallons ,
- tengallon ,
- tengallons .
- oat .
Other synonyms:
- carver ,
- carving knife ,
- chopper ,
- chopstick ,
- cleaver ,
- dessertspoon ,
- fish knife ,
- fork ,
- knife ,
- ladle .
Other relevant words:
- hat .
- Adjutage ,
- Bibelot ,
- Carpophore ,
- Caulicle ,
- Caulis ,
- Filings ,
- Footstalk ,
- Fribble ,
- Leavings ,
- Lutescent ,
- Minikin ,
- Oats ,
- Ocherous ,
- Ochery ,
- Ochreous ,
- Ochry ,
- Orts ,
- Petiolule ,
- Plant Fibre ,
- Resperse ,
- Shive ,
- Spirtle ,
- Straw-colored ,
- Strawy ,
- Stree ,
- Strow ,
- Sweepings ,
- Tigella ,
- Tubulation ,
- Tubulure ,
- Whim-wham ,
- abrupt ,
- afterglow ,
- afterimage ,
- air ,
- angry walk ,
- anthrophore ,
- apportion ,
- aureate ,
- auric ,
- axis ,
- bagatelle ,
- balance ,
- balloon ,
- banter ,
- barbarous ,
- bark ,
- barley ,
- barn bedding ,
- bauble ,
- bean ,
- beige ,
- bestrew ,
- bind ,
- bird seed ,
- bit ,
- blond ,
- blonde ,
- blow off ,
- bole ,
- boorish ,
- bran ,
- brass farthing ,
- broadcast ,
- brutal ,
- bubble ,
- buoy ,
- bury ,
- butt ,
- button ,
- canary-yellow ,
- candle ends ,
- cane ,
- careless ,
- cast ,
- cast forth ,
- casual ,
- cat food ,
- catheter ,
- cattle fodder ,
- caudex ,
- cent ,
- chaff ,
- charge ,
- chicken feed ,
- chip ,
- chop ,
- chromatic ,
- circumfuse ,
- coarse ,
- cobweb ,
- color ,
- colorful ,
- coloured ,
- common ,
- compensate ,
- comprise ,
- cork ,
- corn ,
- cover ,
- cream ,
- crude ,
- crust ,
- culm ,
- curio ,
- cursory ,
- damn ,
- dash ,
- deal out ,
- debris ,
- detritus ,
- diffuse ,
- disband ,
- disembody ,
- dismember ,
- dispel ,
- dispense ,
- disperse ,
- disseminate ,
- distribute ,
- dog food ,
- down ,
- drainpipe ,
- drape ,
- drinking straw ,
- dust ,
- earthy ,
- eatage ,
- enclose ,
- encompass ,
- end ,
- enfold ,
- ensilage ,
- envelop ,
- ether ,
- fairy ,
- falderal ,
- farce ,
- farthing ,
- fast ,
- feather ,
- fescue ,
- fig ,
- fire hose ,
- fleabite ,
- float ,
- flood ,
- flow ,
- flue ,
- flue pipe ,
- fluff ,
- foam ,
- fodder ,
- folderol ,
- forage ,
- fossil ,
- frippery ,
- froth ,
- funiculus ,
- funnel ,
- fuzz ,
- garden hose ,
- gas pipe ,
- gaud ,
- gewgaw ,
- gilt ,
- gimcrack ,
- gold-colored ,
- gossamer ,
- grain ,
- gross ,
- hair ,
- halfpenny ,
- hame ,
- hasty ,
- haulm ,
- hay ,
- hide ,
- hill of beans ,
- holdover ,
- hoot ,
- hose ,
- hosepipe ,
- hurry ,
- husk ,
- husks ,
- immaterial ,
- include ,
- inconsequential ,
- inconsiderable ,
- inconsiderate ,
- insignificant ,
- intersperse ,
- issue ,
- jest ,
- joke ,
- kickshaw ,
- knickknack ,
- knickknackery ,
- leafstalk ,
- leftover ,
- leftovers ,
- lemon yellow ,
- let out ,
- littered ,
- mash ,
- meal ,
- mockery ,
- molehill ,
- mote ,
- mulch ,
- needle ,
- nipple ,
- ochroid ,
- odds and ends ,
- offscourings ,
- omen ,
- organ pipe ,
- overspread ,
- pale yellow ,
- paper bag ,
- paring ,
- parings ,
- pasturage ,
- pasture ,
- peanut ,
- pedicel ,
- peduncle ,
- peppercorn ,
- pet food ,
- petiole ,
- petiolus ,
- picayune ,
- pigment ,
- pin ,
- pinprick ,
- pipe ,
- pipeline ,
- pipette ,
- piping ,
- plant fiber ,
- plant material ,
- prognostic ,
- prognostication ,
- protect ,
- provender ,
- prune ,
- rag ,
- rags ,
- rap ,
- red cent ,
- reed ,
- reed pipe ,
- refuse ,
- relics ,
- remainder ,
- remains ,
- remnant ,
- residue ,
- residuum ,
- rest ,
- retail ,
- roach ,
- root ,
- rough ,
- rubbish ,
- ruin ,
- ruins ,
- rump ,
- rush ,
- rusher ,
- safeguard ,
- saffron-colored ,
- sand-colored ,
- sawdust ,
- scatter ,
- scouring ,
- scourings ,
- scrap ,
- scraps ,
- scratch ,
- secrete ,
- shadow ,
- shaving ,
- shavings ,
- shed ,
- shit ,
- shuck ,
- siamese ,
- siamese connection ,
- silage ,
- siphon ,
- slops ,
- snap ,
- snorkel ,
- snuff ,
- soil pipe ,
- sou ,
- sow ,
- spear ,
- spire ,
- sponge ,
- spread ,
- sprinkle ,
- spume ,
- stalk ,
- stalking ,
- standpipe ,
- starting point ,
- steam pipe ,
- stem ,
- still hunt ,
- stipe ,
- stock ,
- straw hat ,
- straws ,
- strew ,
- stubble ,
- stump ,
- survival ,
- swill ,
- tap ,
- ted ,
- thatch ,
- thistle ,
- thistledown ,
- toy ,
- trace ,
- trifle ,
- trinket ,
- triviality ,
- trunk ,
- tube ,
- tubing ,
- tubule ,
- tuppence ,
- two cents ,
- twopence ,
- utter ,
- vestige ,
- vulgar ,
- waste ,
- waste pipe ,
- water pipe ,
- wheat ,
- xanthous ,
- yellowish ,
- yellowness .
- Aurulent ,
- Flaxen ,
- albino ,
- auricomous ,
- auriferous ,
- aurous ,
- buff ,
- canary ,
- caramel ,
- golden-haired ,
- light brown ,
- mellow yellow ,
- ochre ,
- sandy-haired ,
- strawberry ,
- strawer ,
- washed out ,
- yellow-brown ,
- yellow-haired ,
- honeyed ,
- lightest ,
- platinum ,
- washed-out .
- Cannulas ,
- Foods ,
- Head gear ,
- Stetsons ,
- TAMS ,
- boater ,
- boaters ,
- bowler ,
- bowlers ,
- cannula ,
- chapeau ,
- chapeaux ,
- fedora ,
- fedoras ,
- food ,
- head piece ,
- headgear ,
- headpiece ,
- headpieces ,
- helmet ,
- millinery ,
- panamas ,
- pipelines ,
- pipettes ,
- skimmer ,
- skimmers ,
- sombrero ,
- sombreros ,
- stove pipe ,
- tam ,
- tam o'shanter ,
- ten-gallon ,
- toppers .
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How to use "Straw" in context?
When you drink a beverage through a straw, it engages your sense of smell moreso than your sense of taste. This is because the Sense of smell is more in touch with the natural elements in the air that taste people take in.
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
STRO.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Adjective
Thatched.
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Proper noun, singular
paille.
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Adjective
Homophones for Straw:
- sitar, statuary, side door, satyr, storeria, sea otter, statutory, steatorrhea, stator, stir, shoe store, swither, squatter, sixty-three, story, stereo, starer, strew, shudra, stayer, starry, seeder, setaria, setter, show the door, sou'easter, storey, six-day war, sweater, shuddery, sagittaria, sea scooter, stair, Skye Terrier, skater, skid row, swatter, shudder, scouter, satureia, stray, steer, scatter, stater, suture, suggester, succeeder, shooter, strayer, star, skidder, shedder, sudor, shadower, stirrer, shad roe, shade tree, shoetree, stare, sutra, skitter, stature, stairway, sou'wester, stutterer, sea star, scooter, six day war, sister, set theory, satire, shutter, store, stria, sea aster, six-shooter, soda water, shyster, scoter, sitter, Sudatory, souther, starr, Shittah Tree, seder, sudra, shot tower, stutter, sutura, shatter, sector, sequester, steerer, seawater, shouter, suitor, Sectary, satori.
Holonyms for Straw:
n.
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substance
padding, cushioning.
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substance
Hyponym for Straw:
n.
-
substance
Plant Fibre, plant fiber.
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substance
v.
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contact
cover.
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contact
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