QUITCH GRASS

Definition: QUITCH GRASS

QUITCH GRASS

1. A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Quitch grass \Quitch" grass`\ [Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and compare to Couch grass.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: QUITCH GRASS

Danish

senegraes (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch), almindelig kvik (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch). (various references)

Dutch

kweek (couch-grass). (various references)

Finnish

juolavehnä (couch-grass). (various references)

French

chiendent rampant (quack grass, quick grass, quickens), chiendent commun (quack grass, quick grass, quickens). (various references)

German

kriechende Quecke (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch), gemeine Quecke (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch). (various references)

Greek 

άγρωστις η έρπουσα (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch). (various references)

Italian

lattuga di cane (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch), gramignone (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, stink lovegrass, twitch, US stinkgrass, white couch), gramigno (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch). (various references)

Manx

pundaig (couch grass). (various references)

Pig Latin

itchquay assgray

Spanish

grama oficinal (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch), grama del Norte (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch), agropiro común (couch grass, creeping wheat, quack grass, quick grass, quickens, twitch, white couch). (various references)

Swedish

kvickrot (couch grass, quitch, quitch-grass). (various references)

Agropyron repens, Elytrigia repens, Triticum repens. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: charquis, cutgrass, haircuts, quartics, sastrugi, scraighs, squarish.

-4 letters: acquits, aurists, casuist, charqui, cuirass, curaghs, cushats, gastric, guitars, haircut, quaichs, quaighs, quartic, racists, rustics, sacrist, schuits, scraigh, shiatsu, squirts, tragics.

-5 letters: acquit, agists, aguish, airths, aright, aughts, aurist, caught, chairs, charts, chiaus, cigars, cistus, citrus, crasis, crissa, crista, crusts, curagh, cushat, garish, garths, ghauts.