straw

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. 2
   Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
3. 3
   A drinking straw.
4. 4
   A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
5. 5
   Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
6. 6
   A straw owner.

Adjective

1. 1
   Made of straw.
2. 2
   Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
3. 3
   Imaginary, but presented as real.

Verb

1. 1
   To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
2. 2
   To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname transferred from the nickname.