くさ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. cause; seed; origin
oft. ぐさ in compounds
Noun
2. variety; kind
Counter
Noun
3. counter for varieties
Kanji used
seed
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
verschiedenerlei Pflanzen; Chikusa; Chigusa
die sieben Frühlingstpflanzen (nämlich Brunnenkresse, Hirtentäschel, Baumwollgras, Vogelmiere, Taubnessel, Kohlrübe und Rettich); sieben Herbstpflanzen (nämlich Hagi-Strauch, Stielblütengras, Pfeilwurzel, Nelke, Goldbaldrian, Wasserdost und Trichterwinde); Fest der sieben Gesundheitskräuter (am siebten Januar; Abk.)
Examples (12 in total)
There are 340 species of hummingbirds.
The wind carries seeds for great distances.
Jack exchanged the cow for the seeds.
I didn't know that apple trees grew from seeds.
He raised tomato plants from seed.
The species will be made extinct by the end of this century.
You reap what you sow.
After the volcanic eruption, this species declined.
His research ranks among the best of its kind.
I've never seen that kind of tree before.
Many fragile species are on the verge of extinction.
I had never seen that kind of fish until then.