quack grass

Questions about quack grass

What is another word for quack grass?

It depends which quack grass you mean. In the sense “European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed”, the synonyms are dog grass, couch grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of quack grass?

WordNet records no antonym for quack grass. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for quack grass come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of quack grass

• Full entry for quack grassAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for quack grassWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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