goosegrass

British  

/ ˈɡuːsˌɡrɑːs /

noun

1. another name for cleavers

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Example Sentences

“The ones I keep at the foot of the bed to store sorghum and goosegrass.”

From The New Yorker

Scientists confirmed that certain weeds, like goosegrass and rigid ryegrass, had evolved to resist glyphosate, poking up through sprouting crops when the herbicide a year earlier would have shriveled them.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cornbind and goosegrass were clutching at the ancient gooseberry bushes, which sprawled by the paths.

From Project Gutenberg

Melt some hog's lard, add as much clivers or goosegrass as the lard will moisten, and boil them together over a slow fire.

From Project Gutenberg

"Goosey, goosey, gander, whither do ye wander?" says an old nursery rhyme by way of warning to the silly waddling birds not to venture into hedgerows, else will they become helplessly fettered by the tough, straggling coils of the Clivers, Goosegrass, or, Hedgeheriff, growing so freely there, and a sad despoiler of feathers.

From Project Gutenberg