Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian grass (Elymus repens syn. Agropyron repens) that has whitish-yellow root stocks and is a weed of North American cereal crops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of Triticum repens, a species of grass which infests arable land as a troublesome weed.
- noun The stoloniferous variety of fiorin, Agrostis alba.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) See
quitch grass .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
grass , Elymus repens, usually considered aweed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of quitch grass.]
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From couch + grass.
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rolig commented on the word couch grass
Elytrigia repens
also spelled "couchgrass"; also called twitch, quick grass, quitch grass, dog grass, and quackgrass.
"Who in their senses, one wonders, would leave the fertile plains of Lombardy to build a settlement – let alone a city – among these marshy, malarial wastes, on little islets of sand and couchgrass, the playthings of current and tide?"
– John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice (London: Penguin, 2003), p. 4.
July 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word couch grass
I have 'pain-in-the-ass grass.' You know, that grass that won't grow on your lawn but thrives in the cracks of the driveway and patio.
Is that also known as couch grass?
July 25, 2008