blade of grass

English

Noun

blade of grass (plural blades of grass)

1. A single instance of a plant described by the mass noun grass.
2. (rare) A very small amount of something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

a single instance of a plant described by the mass noun grass

• Dutch: grashalm (nl) m
• Estonian: rohulible
• Finnish: ruoho (fi)
• German: Grashalm (de) m
• Interlingua: folio de herba
• Italian: filo d'erba m

• Japanese: 草の葉 (くさのは, kusanoha)
• Portuguese: folha de grama f
• Russian: трави́нка (ru) f (travínka), были́нка (ru) f (bylínka), были́ца f (bylíca) (archaic), стебелёк травы́ m (stebeljók travý)
• Vietnamese: lá cỏ (vi)
• Volapük: yebastag

See also

• drop of water
• grain of sand
• speck of dust