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How to pronounce “grass”

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Pronunciation guide for grass

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of grass with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Ideal DietYou're a proponent of grass fed.
Definition summary: (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

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The Ideal Diet

You're a proponent of grass fed.

[Noun]
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
(countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
(countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
(countable, obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
(countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
(countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
[Verb]
(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
(transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
(transitive) To feed with grass.
(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.