straw

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

straw [straw straws] BrE [strɔː] NAmE [strɔː] noun
1. uncountable ↑stems of ↑wheat or other grain plants that have been cut and dried. Straw is used for making ↑mats, hats, etc, for packing things to protect them, and as food for animals or for them to sleep on
•a mattress filled with straw
•a straw hat
compare ↑hay
2. countable a single ↑stem or piece of straw
•He was leaning over the gate chewing on a straw.
3. (also ˈdrinking straw)a thin tube of plastic or paper that you suck a drink through
more at make bricks without straw at ↑brick _n., draw the short strawdraw straws at ↑draw _v.
Idioms: ↑grasp at straws ▪ ↑last straw ▪ ↑straw in the wind ▪ ↑straw that breaks the camel's back
See also: ↑drinking straw

Word Origin:
Old English strēaw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stroo and German Stroh, also to ↑strew.

Example Bank:
•She drank her milkshake through a straw.
•The animals sleep on straw.
•The rat hid in the straw.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  drinking straw, pale yellow, wheat, chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble, strew