nutgrass
- noun
- /ˈnʌtˌɡræs/
:
cynodon
- Some wild animals feed on the tubers of nutgrass for nutrition.
Examples
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The farmer struggled to remove nutgrass from his fields each spring.
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The garden was overrun by nutgrass this summer.
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Gardeners often mistake nutgrass for regular grass due to its similar appearance.
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Have you ever tried nutgrass in a salad?
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The garden was overrun with nutgrass, choking out the flowers and vegetables.
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Farmers often struggle to control nutgrass because it spreads quickly and is hard to remove.
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He found that the nutgrass in his yard produced small, edible tubers that he could use in his cooking.
Synonyms
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A plant like grass with small edible nutlike parts under the ground
A grasslike plant with small edible parts under the ground that often grows as a weed
A common weed that has small edible tubers like tiny potatoes underground
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
A small European plant with edible tubers that look like nuts
A plant with small edible tubers you can dig up and eat
A plant that grows near water and has nut-like parts you can eat
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nutgrass is a simple compound of nut and grass because the plant looks like grass but grows small, hard tubers that are like 'nuts', so people call this grass-like weed nutgrass.