scutch grass

Questions about scutch grass

What does scutch grass mean?

scutch grass means "trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India".

What is another word for scutch grass?

Close synonyms include Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, kweek, doob. 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 scutch grass a common word?

scutch 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.