couch grass

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

   Synonymsdog grassquackgrassquack grassquick grasswitch grasswitchgrassAgropyron repens

   Broaderwheatgrass

Questions about couch grass

What does couch grass mean?

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

What is another word for couch grass?

Close synonyms include dog grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass, witch 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 couch grass a common word?

couch grass 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.