わら
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. straw
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.