agropyron repens

1. 1.

   European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed

   Synonymsdog grasscouch grassquackgrassquack grassquick grasswitch grasswitchgrass

   Broaderwheatgrass

Questions about agropyron repens

What does agropyron repens mean?

agropyron repens means "European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed".

What is another word for agropyron repens?

Close synonyms include dog grass, couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agropyron repens a common word?

agropyron repens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.