EGAVE

stubble

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
  2. noun The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
  3. verb To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.

Similar words

husk shuck straw chaff stalk beard thatch mulching trash scruff

Often followed by

of on and fields field in to is was

Word family

stubble field stubbled stubbles stubblier stubbliest stubbly

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