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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed;
[syn: dog grass, couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quitch grass \Quitch" grass`\ (kw[i^]ch" gr[.a]s`). [Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf. Couch grass.] (Bot.) A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Couch grass \Couch" grass`\ (gr?s`). (Bot.) See Quitch grass. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

couch grass n 1: European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed [syn: dog grass, couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens]