Any grass or grass-like plant with thin, flat, blade-like leaves; a general term for various species of grasses.
From Old English 'blæd' (blade) + 'græs' (grass). A compound describing grasses by their most obvious characteristic—the shape of their leaves.
This botanical term perfectly captures how grass leaves are nature's solution to maximum sunlight absorption in minimum space—that flat blade shape is why grasses dominate meadows worldwide!
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