finger grass

1. 1.

   grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

   Synonymscrabgrasscrab grass

   Broadergrass

   NarrowerEgyptian grasssmooth crabgrasslarge crabgrass

   Part ofDigitaria
2. 2.

   any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils

   Broadergrass

   NarrowerRhodes grasswindmill grass

Questions about finger grass

What does finger grass mean?

finger grass means "grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for finger grass?

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

finger grass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.