couch grass

American  

[kouch gras, kooch] / ˈkaʊtʃ ˌgræs, kutʃ /

noun

1. any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.

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couch grass British  

/ kaʊtʃ-, kuːtʃ- /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: couch.  Also called: scutch grass.   twitch grass.   quitch grass.  a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed

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Etymology

Origin of couch grass

1570–80; couch, variant of quitch

Example Sentences

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couch grass

Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

They pull out couch grass and dandelions, plant green onions and a row of lettuce.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The bottom of the dry swamps was covered with a couch grass, which, like all the other grasses, was partly withered.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

We have, in the first rank, the couch grass, that execrable weed which three years of stubborn warfare have not succeeded in exterminating.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The bees in the purple flowers beneath the window boomed a mellow bass, and the grasshoppers made love by millions in the couch grass, chirring in a thousand fleeting raptures.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett