わら
Meanings
Noun
1. 稲や麦の茎を刈り取り、乾燥させたもの。
2. 1で、特に産褥に敷くもの。また転じて、産褥、赤ん坊をもいう。
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (30 in total)
wheat straw; barley straw
straw doll; straw figure; straw effigy
central stalk of a dried rice plant
Examples (5 in total)
He'll clutch at any straw.
In Hokkaido, they make horses of straw.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Is this hay or straw?
In early days pioneers lived in houses made of mud and straw.