greenstuff
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Walt Whitman wrote of grass in 1855: “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful greenstuff woven.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022
Through the mesh he could see a brown bowl, some greenstuff and the ears of two or three rabbits.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Blackberry scuttered along the wood toward him and began to nibble at some kind of greenstuff.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
He carried him home to his own kitchen and saved his life, feeding him with milk from a nasal dropper until he was old enough to eat bran and greenstuff.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
No blade of grass can spring beneath the shadow of those tightly pressed little mats of foliage; no fragment of carbon, no ray of sunshine can ever penetrate below that close fence of living greenstuff.
From Science in Arcady by Allen, Grant
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