Dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, bark, and twigs, that has fallen to the ground and may be used by animals as habitat or for nest-building, eventually decomposing and releasing nutrients into the soil.
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
A drinking straw.
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Imaginary, but presented as real.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.