crab grass

Questions about crab grass

What does crab grass mean?

crab grass means "grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns".

What is another word for crab grass?

Close synonyms include crabgrass, finger 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 crab grass a common word?

crab 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.