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quitchgrass

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A species of grass, Elymus repens.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112, The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
  • 1888, Hawaiian Planters’ Monthly, Honolulu: Planters’ Labor and Supply Co., Volume VII, p. 486, [...] the weed called honohono in Hawaiian, popularly known abroad as Quitchgrass—a weed which every planter in wet districts on our islands has been troubled with and found to be a costly enemy.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From quitch + grass.