Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of blades; provided with blades or leaves: as, “the blady grass,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Consisting of blades.

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  • adjective Consisting of blades.

Etymologies

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blade +‎ -y

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Examples

  • I mean, all they did was figure out a way to manipulate genes in mice helping science study, you know, heart disease and diabetes and cancer, blady, blady, blady.

    CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007 2007

  • With an air of defiance and bravado it may sweep along the path to the beach, chuckling and sneering, head tucked between hunched shoulders, or retreat into the maze of blady grass, side-glancing invitations to a game of hide and seek in which it is bound to win.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • The hapless fly is impaled with an inch or two of the flowering spike of blady grass to which a portion of the white inflorescence adheres, and is released.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • The sound again — merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Imprisoned in an improvised hutch, well padded and bedded with blady grass, the pigling forgot its brief experience of freedom, finding consolation in a diet of coco-nut milk.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Generally the rough, loosely-built nest is hidden in tall, blady grass a foot or so above the ground, the grass stems being bent to meet above it in the form of an arch.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Most of the tall, blady grass had become as yellow as hay, and there were actually bare patches, revealing bluish-grey soil whereon the little blue doves squatted and pecked, almost invisible until sheer nervousness made them rise.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • It was situated in a natural, symmetrical clearing, a circus hemmed in by sullen vegetation, and upon which no plant save blady grass ever invaded.

    Tropic Days 2003

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