cheatgrass

Questions about cheatgrass

What does cheatgrass mean?

cheatgrass means "annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean".

How many syllables are in cheatgrass?

cheatgrass has 3 syllables: che-at-grass. The stress falls on "che".

What is another word for cheatgrass?

Close synonyms include downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome. 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 cheatgrass a common word?

cheatgrass 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.