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  

/ kuːtʃ, kaʊtʃ /

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

I remember one summer evening, sitting under a cloud of midges, weeding out couch grass until it was too dark to see.

From The Guardian

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

From Literature

He had red hair, planted in his head like couch grass, and on his nose he wore a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.

From Project Gutenberg

Those lovely eyes! ’tis the sun blazing on me, making the madness of love spring up higher than couch grass in a deserted garden.”

From Project Gutenberg

I remember the horrent couch grass that waved its ragged tresses above me, and how I told myself that the range of the sand dunes were great lions with bristling manes marching along to Exmouth.

From Project Gutenberg