witchgrass
- noun
- /ˈwɪtʃˌɡræs/
- UK
:
hierba de bruja
- In my garden, witchgrass is a persistent weed that keeps returning every spring.
Examples
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Farmers often struggle with witchgrass in their crops.
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Farmers often struggle to control witchgrass, as it can quickly spread across fields.
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Witchgrass quickly took over the edges of the newly planted cornfield.
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Farmers often struggle to eradicate witchgrass from their land.
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In late summer, the brushy heads of witchgrass become especially noticeable along rural roads.
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The field was overrun with witchgrass.
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To maintain a healthy lawn, be sure to remove any witchgrass before it takes over the grass.
Synonyms
A grass that spreads quickly and grows where it is not wanted
A North American grass with thin, brushy flower clusters that often grows as a weed in fields
A common North American grass with thin, brush-like groups of flowers that grows as a weed in fields
A North American grass with thin, brush-like flower heads that often grows as a weed
A wild grass with thin brush-like seed heads that grows in fields
Compounds
A common North American grass with thin, brush-like groups of flowers that grows as a weed in fields
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Witchgrass is simply witch + grass, and one popular idea says farmers called it that because the plant seemed to have 'magic' or to cause trouble in their fields, or because its messy seedheads looked 'spooky'. So, witchgrass now means a weedy grass that spreads in fields and is hard to get rid of.
