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[syn: dog grass, couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quitch grass \Quitch" grass`\ (kw[i^]ch" gr[.a]s`). [Properly
quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous
growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf.
Couch grass.] (Bot.)
A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running
rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously,
and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass,
quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Couch grass \Couch" grass`\ (gr?s`). (Bot.)
See Quitch grass.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
couch grass
n 1: European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes;
naturalized in North America as a weed [syn: dog grass,
couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass,
witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens]