scutch grass


Origin of scutch grass

1
First recorded in 1675–85

Words Nearby scutch grass

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How to use scutch grass in a sentence

  • It was a moor at the time of the battle in 1485, overgrown with thistles and scutch-grass.

  • Nurse: If they have, there is not so much of it in you as would redden a rib of scutch-grass.

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British Dictionary definitions for scutch grass

scutch grass

noun
  1. another name for Bermuda grass, couch grass Sometimes shortened to: scutch

Origin of scutch grass

1
variant of couch grass

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