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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. quachil
  2. quachils
  3. quachtli
  4. quachtlis
  5. quack
  6. quack grass
  7. quack like a duck
  8. quack-breech
  9. quack-breeches
  10. quack-grass
  11. quack-salver

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