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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FRASS

From German, from fressen to devour.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FRASS

frass  [fræs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRASS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frass is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Frass

Frass refers loosely to the more or less solid excreta of insects, and to certain other related matter.

Definition of frass in the English dictionary

The definition of frass in the dictionary is excrement or other refuse left by insects and insect larvae.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRASS


alcatras
ˈælkəˌtræs
Aras
æˈræs
corporas
ˈkɔːpəræs
crass
kræs
cuirass
kwɪˈræs
Esdras
ˈɛzdræs
hippocras
ˈhɪpəʊˌkræs
MIRAS
ˈmaɪˌræs
Mithras
ˈmɪθræs
morass
məˈræs
Patras
pəˈtræs
Protagoras
prəʊˈtæɡəˌræs
Sampras
ˈsæmpˌræs
sassafras
ˈsæsəˌfræs
steenbras
ˈstiːnˌbræs
strass
stræs
tirasse
tɪˈræs
trass
træs
wrasse
ræs
zebrass
ˈzebræs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRASS

franzy
frap
frape
frappant
frapped
frapping
Frascati
Fraser
frat
fratch
fratchy
frate
frater
fraternal
fraternalism
fraternally
fraternisation
fraterniser
fraternities

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRASS

beargrass
bent grass
Bermuda grass
bluegrass
brass
cutting grass
disembarrass
embarrass
grass
Greengrass
harass
Kentucky bluegrass
lemon grass
meadow grass
pampas grass
rye-grass
switchgrass
top brass
turfgrass
wheatgrass

Synonyms and antonyms of frass in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «frass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRASS

Find out the translation of frass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虫粪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excrementos
570 millions of speakers

English

frass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

frass
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

frass
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пилильщика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

frass
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

frass
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

excréments
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Frass
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

frass
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

糞粒
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

frass
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Frase
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phân ấu trùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

frass
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dışkılarının
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

escrementi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Frass
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пилильщика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frass
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

frass
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

frass
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frass
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frass
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRASS»

The term «frass» is regularly used and occupies the 100.539 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRASS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRASS»

Discover the use of frass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Encyclopedia of Entomology
Frass WHITNEY CRANSHAW Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA Frass is the solid excrement (fecal material) produced by various insects that feed on wood, foliage and other solid materials. Frass is produced in various shapes ...
John L. Capinera, 2008
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Forest Canopies
2000). Rainfall carries some products of herbivory as throughfall, combining the effects of dissolved insect frass and modified leachates from damaged foliage ( Rinker et al. 2001). During outbreaks of insect herbivores, significant increases in  ...
Margaret Lowman, H. Bruce Rinker, 2004
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Benumof's Airway Management: Principles and Practice
Della Puppa A, Pittoni G, Frass M: Tracheal esophageal combitube: A useful airway for morbidly obese patients who cannot intubate or ventilate. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 46:911-913, 2002. 19. Deroy R, Ghoris M: The CombitubeTM elective ...
Jonathan Benumof, Carin A. Hagberg, 2007
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Principles and Practices in Plant Ecology: Allelochemical ...
Mustard and fescue proved most sensitive and radicle extension was almost completely inhibited at frass concentrations equivalent to 120 to 360 kg/ha. Natural rates of frass fall were estimated to range from 20 to 2500 kg/ha/y ( Silander et al., ...
. Inderjit, K. M. M. Dakshini, Chester L. Foy, 1999
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Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest ...
This frass was collected to monitor the California oakworm. These three piles of caterpillar droppings (from left to right) were produced by the smallest larvae (first instars), third instars, and fifth-instar larvae. Pellets average 0.3, 0.6, and 1.4 mm  ...
Steve H. Dreistadt, Mary Louise Flint, 2004
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Trait-Mediated Indirect Interactions: Ecological and ...
experimental addition of insect frass to soil caused increases in soil mineral N pools and export of nitrate-N from the system. An important question then arises; can trees regain any of the N lost to herbivory by uptake from the soil? We used ...
Takayuki Ohgushi, Oswald Schmitz, Robert D. Holt, 2012
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Chemical Ecology of Insect Parasitoids
Several studies reported that female flies deposit their larvae on or near frass of their hosts. Tarsal contact with host frass appears to be the primary stimulus for oviposition by searching type tachinids such as L. diatraeae, which attacks the ...
Eric Wajnberg, Stefano Colazza, 2013
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Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions
(1966) found no difference in the response of Lydella grisescens Robineau- Desvoidy females to ethanol extracts of frass of Ostrinia nubilalis (Hiibner) larvae fed on an artificial diet or corn. Roth et al. (1978), however, reported that L. diatraeae ...
Pedro Barbosa, Deborah K. Letourneau, 1988
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Diets of Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in ...
Males did not produce frass thereafter, and females produced little additional frass (Fig 2.1). Not all frass pellets produced during the 72-hour experimental period contained fragments of aphid cuticle. However, all but 3 of 19 females (i.e.,  ...
L. Nicole Davidson, 2008
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Issues in Global Environment: Pollution and Waste ...
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Sophia Antipolis: Attraction of the parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris to host (Spodoptera frugiperda) frass is affected by transgenic maize New research, 'Attraction of the parasitoid ...
‎2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frass is used in the context of the following news items.
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A welcome with a rose...
If you see 'frass' on your plants, you will also find caterpillar damage – as frass in the correct term for caterpillar poo! 6.Moles can see – True, ... «Fenland Citizen, Jul 15»
2
Doodlebugs pose lethal threat to unsuspecting ants
The smallest black spots are their frass (poop). On sunflowers, we just let them be because they might damage the leaves but the flowers are ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
3
A carpenter ant saves the day by exploding his head
Those little gray piles you're seeing are frass piles. It's the wood they have excavated to build nests and connecting tunnels. They don't actually ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
4
Proctor: What's bugging your garden?
One of the first signs of the presence of caterpillars is dark green frass (caterpillar poop) on leaf stems and new growth. If you see frass or ... «9NEWS.com, Jul 15»
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The Battle To Renovate Emanuel AME
Termite waste, known as “frass,” was also found along the base of nearly every window the sanctuary. There are “literally thousands of dead ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Marin celebrates the Fourth with pride, picnics, parades
“Spirits were very upbeat with people singing and dancing, and everyone was in their red, white and blue,” Frass said. In San Rafael, the Marin ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
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My rain barrel floweth over
They are exactly the same color as the plants so they may be hard to spot at first, but their dark colored frass (caterpillar poop) is usually ... «Catskill Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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The Bugman: Choking on the Splinters
They produce very fine, powder-like frass when they damage wood. Frass from anobiids and bostrichids is not nearly as fine as these beetles ... «Weekly Alibi, Jul 15»
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Exotic beetle means trouble for ash trees
Their serpentine feeding galleries weave back and forth across the wood grain and typically are packed with frass (debris or excrement). «Burlington County Times, Jun 15»
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Napa County nudges closer to EGVM eradication
cause the greatest damage by webbing and feeding inside berries and within bunches, which become contaminated with frass (excrement). «Western Farm Press, Jun 15»

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