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

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

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass: Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

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

From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various