quack grass

American  

noun

Inland North and North Midland U.S..

1. a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.

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quack grass British  

noun

1. another name for couch grass

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Etymology

Origin of quack grass

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Reason is, the quack grass of Hillsdale's paddock gives heavy horses good footing and ten world's records have been tugged across its surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

These trees were planted in a heavy quack grass sod and some were lost, but those surviving show good compatibility between the top and root.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

If I uncover the earth in any of my fields, ragweed and pigweed spring up; if these are destroyed, harvest grass, or quack grass, or purslane appears.

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John

If I uncover the earth in any of my fields, ragweed and pigweed spring up; if these are destroyed, harvest grass, or quack grass, or purslane, appears.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

Weeds are annuals, as pigweeds, crab grass, purslane; biennials as bull thistle and mulleins; perennials, like quack grass, Canada thistle, ox-eye Daisy.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)