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Definition: twitch grass
Quitch grass
\Quitch" grass`\ (kw[i^]ch" gr[.a]s`). [Properly
quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous
growth, or from its tenacity of life. See
Quick, and cf.
Couch grass.] (Bot.)
A perennial grass (
Agropyrum repens) having long running
rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously,
and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called
couch grass,
quack grass,
quick grass,
twitch grass. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]