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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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of quack grass1

First recorded in 1810–20
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of quack grass1

C19: a variant of quick grass
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“And I sure learned what quack grass is.”

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Weeds are annuals, as pigweeds, crab grass, purslane; biennials as bull thistle and mulleins; perennials, like quack grass, Canada thistle, ox-eye Daisy.

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If I uncover the earth in any of my fields, ragweed and pigweed spring up; if these are destroyed, harvest grass, or quack grass, or purslane appears.

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In soft ground, with plenty of room, a bit of quick or quack grass, or Bermuda, will extend in a year three to five feet or more in one direction.

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Antonyms: continue, persist, stay. quitch grass. crouch grass, quack grass. quiver, v. tremble, shake, shudder, quake. quivering, a. trimbling, tremulous, shuddering, shaking. quixotic, a.

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