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

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 grass is mostly couch grass and weeds.

From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by Scott, J.W. Robertson

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 Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander