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What is the noun for straw?

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straw
  1. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
  2. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
  3. (countable) A drinking straw.
  4. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
  5. (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The thrashers must be kept constantly at work throughout this month, that the cattle feeding on straw may have a regular supply.”
      “Ah, sipping Dom PĂ©rignon through a straw. Now that's cool.”
strawpedo
  1. (slang) A technique for drinking alcohol very quickly by placing a straw in it (to allow air to replace the liquid) but drinking around the straw instead of through it.
strawboard
  1. A form of cardboard, usually yellow, made from straw
  2. Examples:
    1. “The merger of the strawboard and boxboard manufacturers has at last been competed.”
      “Leonard is careful to explain that strawboard is an interior, not exterior product and will not replace wood.”
      “It is possible that particulars of a machine for cutting strawboard, cardboard, etc., may be useful.”
strawcraft
  1. The making of things from straw.
strawbale
  1. A bale of straw.
strawboards
  1. plural of strawboard
strawbales
  1. plural of strawbale
straws
  1. plural of straw
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He works Miles hard and does all the thinking for Angus, who, right from the beginning, is seen to be a few straws short of a bale.”
      “But cloches for mid twenties and later summers were also made from sisal, balibuntal and Baku straws.”
      “They mowed lawns, they painted each other's fishing boats and they bought a jug of beer and six straws to go around.”
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