witchgrass

1. 1.

   North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land

   Synonymswitch grassold witchgrassold witch grasstumble grassPanicum capillare

   Broaderpanic grass
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsdog grasscouch grassquackgrassquack grassquick grasswitch grassAgropyron repens

   Broaderwheatgrass

Other forms of witchgrass

plural

witchgrasses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about witchgrass

What does witchgrass mean?

witchgrass means "North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in witchgrass?

witchgrass has 2 syllables: witch-grass. The stress falls on "witch".

What is another word for witchgrass?

Close synonyms include witch grass, old witchgrass, old witch grass, tumble grass, Panicum capillare. 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 witchgrass a common word?

witchgrass 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.