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quackgrass

quackgrass noun: couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens).

quackgrass: couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens)
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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

Forms of quackgrass

pluralquackgrasses
alternative formquack grass
alternative formquack-grass

Origin of quackgrass

Alteration of quickgrass, a variant of quitchgrass.

Questions about quackgrass

What does quackgrass mean?
Quackgrass means couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens).
What part of speech is quackgrass?
Quackgrass is a noun.
What is the plural of quackgrass?
The plural of quackgrass is quackgrasses.

Words near quackgrass in the dictionary

  1. quackeries
  2. quackers
  3. quackery
  4. quackest
  5. quacketh
  6. quackgrass
  7. quackgrasses
  8. quackhood
  9. quackier
  10. quackiest
  11. quacking

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