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Couch grass   /kaʊtʃ græs/   Listen
Couch grass

noun
1.
European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed.  Synonyms: Agropyron repens, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass.






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"Couch grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... that floating coarse grass, any joint of which being torn off either by the current, a passing canoe, or hippos, floats down and grows wherever it settles. Like most things that float in these parts, it usually settles on a sandbank, and then grows in much the same way as our couch grass grows on land in England, so as to form a network, which catches for its adopted sandbank all sorts of floating debris; so the sandbank comes up in the world. The waters of the wet season when they rise drown off the grass; but when they fall, up it comes again ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley



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