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別の表記

• quack grass, quack-grass

語源

Alteration of quickgrass, a variant of quitchgrass.

名詞

quackgrass (countable and uncountable, plural quackgrasses)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens). [from 19th c.]
   • 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 66:

     “These tracks are the straightest shot I know from those two sections of quack grass back there […] to the closest gin mill.”