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quack-grass

quack-grass is the alternative form of quackgrass.

Meaning of quackgrass

Noun

quackgrass (countable and uncountable, plural quackgrasses)

  1. (Canada, US) Couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens).
    • “These tracks are the straightest shot I know from those two sections of quack grass back there […] to the closest gin mill.”1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 66

Questions about quack-grass

What is quack-grass the alternative form of?
Quack-grass is the alternative form of quackgrass.

Words near quack-grass in the dictionary

  1. quack
  2. quack grass
  3. quack like a duck
  4. quack-breech
  5. quack-breeches
  6. quack-grass
  7. quack-salver
  8. quack-salvers
  9. quackademic
  10. quackademics
  11. quackbuster

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