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quack grass

noun

, Inland North and North Midland U.S..
  1. a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.


quack grass

noun

  1. another name for couch grass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of quack grass1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quack grass1

C19: a variant of quick grass
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Example Sentences

Quack grass will run out other grass because it travels under ground in the root as well as above ground in the seed.

By creeping root-stocks, as June grass, quack-grass and toad-flax.

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