(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Made of straw. / Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. / (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.

To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. / (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

A surname transferred from the nickname.

present participle of straw

(slang, archaic) Confined to bed because of pregnancy.

Having a particular kind of straw. / Covered with straw.

Enough to fill a drinking straw.

plural of strawful

plural of straw