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Couch Grass

Definition: Couch Grass

Couch Grass

Noun

1. European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Couch Grass

Synonyms: dog grass (n), quack grass (n), quackgrass (n), quick grass (n), witch grass (n), witchgrass (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: quickens (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Crosswords: Couch Grass

English words defined with "couch grass": Quitch grass. (references)
Etymologies containing "couch grass": Quitch grass. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Couch Grass

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References

  • The World Market for Vegetable Materials Used Primarily in Brooms and Brushes Including Broomcorn, Piassava, Couch Grass, and Istle: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Couch Grass

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

couch grass

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Couch Grass

Language Translations for "couch grass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

barëra të këqia. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

троскот (dog's grass, twitch). (various references)

   

Danish

  

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

   

Dutch

  

kweek (couch-grass). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

juolavehnä (couch-grass). (various references)

   

French

  

chiendent rampant (white couch), chiendent commun (white couch). (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Italian

  

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

   

Manx

  

pundaig (quitch grass), faiyr voddee (twitch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouchcay assgray

   

Romanian

  

pir (quitch, twitch), iarba câmpului (bent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пырей ползучий (couch, couch-grass, dog's grass, quitch, quitch-grass). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pirevina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

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

   

Turkish

  

ayrık out (couch, twitch). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

бур'ян (beat, tare, weed), пирій повзучий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Couch Grass

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Couch Grass

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-h-o-r-s-s-u"

-2 letters: choragus.

-3 letters: aurochs, cachous, corsacs, cougars, curaghs, gauchos, rugosas, sarcous, soucars, succahs, succors.

-4 letters: across, cachou, cargos, caroch, chorus, corsac, cougar, coughs, crocus, crouch, curagh, gaucho, grouch, guacos, hussar, occurs, roughs, rugosa, sauchs, saughs, scaurs, scorch, scours, scrags, shrugs, soucar, soughs, succah, succor, sugars, surahs.

-5 letters: arcus, argus, ascus, cargo, casus, chaos, chars, chugs.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-h-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+4 letters: psychosurgical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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