couch grass
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
couch grass (uncountable)
- A species of grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 145:
- But the trouble was pervasive and deep-rooted as couch-grass.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 82:
- The old couple who had lived there hadn't been able to do much and the garden was a wilderness of couch-grass and dandelion.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 145:
- (Elymus repens) quick grass, quitch grass, quitch, dog grass, quackgrass, quitch grass, scutch grass, twitch, witchgrass
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