| ground | small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor |
|---|---|
| ground | low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow |
| ground | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
| ground | fish that live on the sea bottom especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder |
| ground | reddish brown North American marmot |
| ground | (US) if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter |
| ground | fastening electrical equipment to earth |
| ground | education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge |
| ground | without a basis in reason or fact |
| ground | in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section |
| ground | the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded |
| ground | pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds |