crabgrass

crab·grass

or crab grass C0716400 (krăb′grăs′)n. Any of certain annual grasses of the genus Digitaria, having prostrate stems that root at the nodes and widely naturalized in North America as weeds in lawns and agricultural fields.

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Noun

crabgrass - grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawnscrab grass, finger grassgrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as haycrowfoot grass, Dactyloctenium aegypticum, Egyptian grass - a creeping grass with spikes like fingersDigitaria, genus Digitaria - crab grass; finger grassDigitaria ischaemum, smooth crabgrass - a weedDigitaria sanguinalis, hairy finger grass, large crabgrass - a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States

crabgrass

crabgrass,

name for any of several 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
..... Click the link for more information. species of the genera Digitaria, Eleusine, and Panicum, especially the species D. sanguinalis. Crabgrass is a common lawn weed, especially in the S and E United States. The grass has branching stems that may reach a length of 3 ft (91 cm) and flowers borne on purple spikes. It is sometimes cut for hay.

crabgrass

Related to crabgrass: dallisgrass, quackgrass, Yellow Woodsorrel

noun

Synonyms for crabgrass

noun grasses with creeping stems that root freely

Synonyms

crab grass
finger grass

Related Words

grass
crowfoot grass
Dactyloctenium aegypticum
Egyptian grass
Digitaria
genus Digitaria
Digitaria ischaemum
smooth crabgrass
Digitaria sanguinalis
hairy finger grass
large crabgrass