"couch grass" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/ [General-American], /ˈkuːt͡ʃɡɹɑːs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-couch grass.wav Forms: couch [alternative], couch-grass [alternative], couchgrass [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|head=couch grass}} couch grass (uncountable)
  1. A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed. Tags: uncountable Categories (lifeform): Hordeeae tribe grasses Synonyms: dog grass, quackgrass, quicken (alt: Britain, regional), quick grass, quitch, quitch grass, scutch grass, twitch, witchgrass Derived forms: sea couch grass Translations (species of grass): gram [masculine] (Albanian), krisje [feminine] (Albanian), نْجم (njəm) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), grama [feminine] (Asturian), sürünən ayrıqotu (Azerbaijani), askiluze (Basque), пы́рнік (pýrnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), treuzgeot (Breton), пълзящ пирей (pǎlzjašt pirej) [masculine] (Bulgarian), agram [masculine] (Catalan), فریزوو (frîzû) (Central Kurdish), pýr [masculine] (Czech), kvikgræs [neuter] (Danish), senegræs [neuter] (Danish), kvik [common-gender] (Danish), kweek [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kviko (Esperanto), víðgongdur kveiki [masculine] (Faroese), juolavehnä (Finnish), chiendent [masculine] (French), grama [feminine] (Galician), rengo [masculine] (Galician), Quecke [feminine] (German), Kriech-Quecke [feminine] (German), αγριάδα (agriáda) [feminine] (Greek), tarackbúza (Hungarian), húsapuntur [masculine] (Icelandic), orasheinä (Ingrian), orasrooho (Ingrian), broimfhéar [masculine] (Irish), gramigna [feminine] (Italian), シバムギ (shibamugi) (Japanese), әәрү (äärü) (Kalmyk), prôwdzëwô òszoc (Kashubian), 구주개밀 (gujugaemil) (Korean), agrōstis [feminine] (Latin), ložņu vārpata [masculine] (Latvian), paprastasis varputis [masculine] (Lithuanian), pyrje [neuter] (Lower Sorbian), пиреј (pirej) [masculine] (Macedonian), herewhenua (Maori), хиаг (xiag) (Mongolian), falasca (Neapolitan), kweg (North Frisian), firiz (Northern Kurdish), kveke (Norwegian Bokmål), agram [masculine] (Occitan), бырӕг (byræg) (Ossetian), perz [masculine] (Polish), ch'iki qachu (Quechua), trebla [feminine] (Romansch), пыре́й (pyréj) [masculine] (Russian), couch gress (Scots), pýr [masculine] (Slovak), plazeča pirnica [feminine] (Slovene), grama [feminine] (Spanish), kvickrot (Swedish), ayrık otu (Turkish), ожмонтурын (ožmonturyn) (Udmurt), пирі́й (pyríj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), gramegna [feminine] (Venetan), (syn.: Triticum repens) kripatritig (Volapük), påne [feminine] (Walloon), dint-d'-tchén [masculine] (Walloon), marchwellt [masculine] (Welsh)
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Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. Originally Published in the Cultivator; Selected and Revised for the School District Library, volume 1, Harper and Brothers, page 134:",
          "text": "The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure. Some of these, however, as the couch grass, being very vivacious, would readily spring again: and therefore it is necessary that their vegetative powers be destroyed, which may be done by mixing them with lime, and forming in this way a compost. Many farmers, however, to save time, or to prevent the risk of the plants springing again, burn them in little heaps upon the ground at the time of their being collected, and spread the ashes upon the surface. This may be sometimes convenient, but the effect is, that the principal nutritive part of the plant is dissipated, and nothing left but the carbonaceous, earthy, and other insoluble matter. —Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture.",
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          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 82:",
          "text": "The old couple who had lived there hadn't been able to do much and the garden was a wilderness of couch-grass and dandelion.",
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          "word": "dog grass"
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          "word": "prôwdzëwô òszoc"
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          "roman": "gujugaemil",
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          "word": "구주개밀"
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          "code": "kmr",
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          "text": "The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure. Some of these, however, as the couch grass, being very vivacious, would readily spring again: and therefore it is necessary that their vegetative powers be destroyed, which may be done by mixing them with lime, and forming in this way a compost. Many farmers, however, to save time, or to prevent the risk of the plants springing again, burn them in little heaps upon the ground at the time of their being collected, and spread the ashes upon the surface. This may be sometimes convenient, but the effect is, that the principal nutritive part of the plant is dissipated, and nothing left but the carbonaceous, earthy, and other insoluble matter. —Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture.",
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "word": "ayrık otu"
    },
    {
      "code": "udm",
      "lang": "Udmurt",
      "roman": "ožmonturyn",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "word": "ожмонтурын"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pyríj",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пирі́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gramegna"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "word": "(syn.: Triticum repens) kripatritig"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "påne"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dint-d'-tchén"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "species of grass",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "marchwellt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "couch grass"
}

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  "msg": "suspicious translation with ': ': {'lang': 'Volapük', 'code': 'vo', 'sense': 'species of grass', 'word': '(syn.: Triticum repens) kripatritig'}",
  "path": [
    "couch grass"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "couch grass",
  "trace": ""
}

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