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

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

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 The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

About an hour before sunset we arrived on the banks of a large creek, with a bed of couch grass, but no water.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt

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 Sarah Bernhardt