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say it: straw
straw is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder". It is pronounced /ˈstɹɔ/ — straw. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for straw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.