Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weed-grass somewhat resembling wheat, though smaller, formerly regarded as belonging to the wheat genus, Triticum, but now known as Agropyrum repens. Also
quick- , quack-, cutch-, and couch-grass. See especially couch-grass.
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Examples
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The second consists largely of quitch-grass, the very worst of all, and purslain or pusley, which Charles Dudley Warner has immortalized in his charming book, "My Summer in a Garden."
An Island Garden 1894
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The roots of quitch-grass are as strong as steel and run rapidly in all directions underneath the surface, sending up tender shoots that break too easily when you touch them.
An Island Garden 1894
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I believe that words, or even the mere intonation of them, have an astonishing vitality and power of propagation by the root, like the gardener's pest, quitch-grass, [31] while the application or combination of them may be new.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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