ストロー

noun

drinking straw

The common modern meaning: a thin tube for drinking beverages.

• ジュースをストローで飲のんだ。

  I drank the juice with a straw.

noun

straw (dried stalk)

Rarely used alone for dried grain stalks; modern Japanese normally uses 藁 (わら) for this meaning. This sense is mostly encountered in older or translated contexts.

See also: わら

• 古ふるい翻ほん訳やくでは、藁わらのことを「ストロー」と書かいている例れいがある。

  In old translations, there are cases where 藁 is written as ストロー.