couch grass

English

Alternative forms

• couch, couch-grass, couchgrass

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/

• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːt͡ʃɡɹɑːs/

Noun

couch grass (uncountable)

1. A species of grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

   Synonyms: dog grass, quackgrass, (Britain, regional) quicken, quick grass, quitch, quitch grass, scutch grass, twitch, witchgrass

   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 145:

     But the trouble was pervasive and deep-rooted as couch-grass.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 82:

     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.

Derived terms

• sea couch grass

Translations

species of grass

• Albanian: gram (sq) m, krisje (sq) f
• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: نْجم m (njəm)

• Asturian: grama f
• Azerbaijani: sürünən ayrıqotu
• Basque: askiluze
• Belarusian: пы́рнік m (pýrnik)
• Breton: treuzgeot
• Bulgarian: пълзящ пирей m (pǎlzjašt pirej)
• Catalan: agram (ca) m
• Czech: pýr (cs) m
• Danish: kvikgræs n, senegræs n, kvik c
• Dutch: kweek (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: kviko
• Faroese: víðgongdur kveiki m
• Finnish: juolavehnä (fi)
• French: chiendent (fr) m
• Galician: grama f, rengo m
• German: Quecke (de) f, Kriech-Quecke f
• Greek: αγριάδα (el) f (agriáda)
• Hungarian: tarackbúza (hu)
• Icelandic: húsapuntur (is) m
• Ingrian: orasheinä, orasrooho
• Irish: broimfhéar m
• Italian: gramigna (it) f
• Japanese: シバムギ (shibamugi)
• Kalmyk: әәрү (äärü)
• Kashubian: prôwdzëwô òszoc
• Korean: 구주개밀 (gujugaemil)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فریزوو (frîzû)

  Northern Kurdish: firiz

• Latin: agrōstis f
• Latvian: ložņu vārpata m
• Lithuanian: paprastasis varputis m
• Macedonian: пиреј m (pirej)
• Maori: herewhenua
• Mongolian: хиаг (mn) (xiag)
• Neapolitan: falasca
• North Frisian: kweg
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kveke

• Occitan: agram (oc) m
• Ossetian: бырӕг (byræg)
• Polish: perz (pl) m
• Quechua: ch'iki qachu
• Romansch: trebla f
• Russian: пыре́й (ru) m (pyréj)
• Scots: couch gress
• Slovak: pýr m
• Slovene: plazeča pirnica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pyrje n

• Spanish: grama (es) f
• Swedish: kvickrot
• Turkish: ayrık otu (tr)
• Udmurt: ожмонтурын (ožmonturyn)
• Ukrainian: пирі́й m (pyríj)
• Venetan: gramegna f
• Volapük: (syn.: Triticum repens) kripatritig
• Walloon: påne (wa) f, dint-d'-tchén m
• Welsh: marchwellt m

Further reading

• couch grass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elymus repens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Elymus repens at Grassbase