Meaning of frass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The droppings or excrement of insect larvae.
   countable, uncountable
2. artificial turf
   Multicultural-London-English, informal, uncountable
3. The sawdust-like byproduct of wood-boring insects like woodworm, termites, old-house borers or powderpost beetles.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Examine the stalk, especially behind the sheaths, for holes and sawdustlike frass where the larvae have entered to tunnel in the stalk.”

“Although purists object to artificial turf or ‘frass’, it finds purchase as way to save water in parched Golden State”

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