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单词 quack grass
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quack grass


quack grass

n. See couch grass.
[Variant of quitch grass.]

quack grass

n (Plants) another name for couch grass [C19: a variant of quick grass]
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Noun1.quack grass - European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomesquack grass - European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weedAgropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrasswheatgrass, wheat-grass - a grass of the genus Agropyron

quack grass


quack grass

or

couch grass,

Old World perennial grassgrass,
any plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in
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 (Agropyron repens), now widely distributed and in the United States a troublesome weed. It somewhat resembles a beardless wheat and has creeping, yellowish rootstalks, the joints of which, even though detached, are capable of producing new plants; thus quack grass is a good soil binder but extremely difficult to eradicate. The dried sweetish rootstalks have been used medicinally, and the foliage is useful for forage. Quack grass is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Poaceae.
MedicalSeecouch grass

quack grass


  • noun

Synonyms for quack grass

noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes

Synonyms

  • Agropyron repens
  • couch grass
  • dog grass
  • quackgrass
  • quick grass
  • witch grass
  • witchgrass

Related Words

  • wheatgrass
  • wheat-grass
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