quackgrass
IPA: kwˈækgræs
noun
- couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens)
quack grass
IPA: kwˈækgrˈæs
noun
- Alternative form of quackgrass [couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens)]
Examples of "quackgrass" in Sentences
- The quackgrass has grown tall and mourning doves frequently visit him.
- Quackgrass may be the most important reservoir for overwintering telia.
- May 3, 2008 at 5:59 am poppies quick-growin quackgrass rose-culored roses s…
- Underground are long white branching rhizomes that vaguely resemble quackgrass.
- After a season of neglect, even these tough flowers were losing ground to the bindweed and quackgrass and spurge.
- Don't add weeds that have gone to seed or aggressive perennial weeds like creeping Charley, bindweed, or quackgrass.
- "Remove persistent weeds such as blackberry, bindweed, morning glory or quackgrass that composting might not smother."
- This sometimes requires such close examination that a magnifying loop will be needed to distinguish, say, quackgrass from goosegrass.
- Other plants also are "totally tied up with our culture," he says, even reviled weeds like dandelions, once considered a decorative herb, and noxious grasses such as crabgrass and quackgrass, used to fuel the engines of commerce - horses and mules.
Examples of "quack-grass" in Sentences
- Of all of these years of hard plowing in quack-grass, while batting
- Weeds that propagate through underground stems or rhizomes like quack-grass, Johnsongrass, bittersweet, and the like are better burnt.
- While the operator is busy adjusting his machine and manipulating it about the corners of the garden, the quack-grass has escaped over the fence or has gone to seed at the other end of the plantation.
- No sooner is one growth slain than a different and perhaps more pestiferous class rises in its place -- the worst of the Philistines being nut-grass, quack-grass, and -- direst foe of all -- wire-grass.
- Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.
- Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass, as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.