Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of Syntherisma. S. linearis, distinguished as smooth crab-grass, is abundant in the southern United States, but is little valued.
- noun An annual grass, Panicum sanguinale, common in cultivated and waste grounds.
- noun The Salicornia herbacea, a low, succulent, chenopodiaceous plant, growing upon the seashore and supposed to be eaten by crabs.
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Examples
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Or at least transformed from the green paradise of spring into the brown, parched, vine-entangled, crab-grass festooned patch of ghastliness before my eyes.
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The prolific Michael Connelly, who plows the crab-grass area of L. A.'s criminal justice system, is back for the summer with a follow up to his 2002 hit, The Poet.
Tom Alderman: Baldacci, Coben and Connelly: The Boys of Summer's Audiobooks - Reviewed 2009
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My favorite tenants in my tiny 4x4 foot garden thank you Square Foot Gardening and my patient husband... have to be the miniscule carrot plants, with their thin crab-grass first leaves, crowded into friendly cliques because I was a little overzealous with the post-seeding watering.
Day in a Sentence Tech Geek 2008
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We own a house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania a Philadelphia suburb between Swarthmore and Media and cope with crab-grass, contractors and cocktail parties like other bourgeois suburbanites.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: L Sprague de Camp (1950) Chris Perridas 2008
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We own a house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania a Philadelphia suburb between Swarthmore and Media and cope with crab-grass, contractors and cocktail parties like other bourgeois suburbanites.
Archive 2008-08-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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My favorite tenants in my tiny 4x4 foot garden thank you Square Foot Gardening and my patient husband... have to be the miniscule carrot plants, with their thin crab-grass first leaves, crowded into friendly cliques because I was a little overzealous with the post-seeding watering.
Archive 2008-07-01 Tech Geek 2008
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English is a kind of strong fluke ... like crab-grass. out to pasture - to the barn raising
amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2006
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English is a kind of strong fluke ... like crab-grass. out to pasture - to the barn raising
amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2006
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So too are the pool halls, their beer-varnished countertops and oaken floors and rag-topped pool tables absent, replaced now by a prosaic sprawl of yellow weeds and crab-grass at the corner of Church Avenue and Gay Street.
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I am trying to cut and cure some pea-vine and crab-grass hay, but it is very uphill work.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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