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Definition of Quick grass
1. Noun. European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed.
Generic synonyms: Wheat-grass, Wheatgrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quick Grass
Literary usage of Quick grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1879)
"64), tbe Scotch Kose, the Couch-grass or Quick-grass, and many other plants,
spread so rapidly and widely, " by the root," as it is said. ..."
2. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"... the Scotch Rose, the Couch-grass or Quick-grass, and many other plants, spread
so rapidly and widely, " by the root," as it is said. ..."
3. Text-book of Western Botany: Consisting of Coulter's Manual of the Botany of by John Merle Coulter, Asa Gray (1885)
"... the Couch-grass or Quick-grass, and many other plants, spread so rapidly and
widely, " by the root," as it is said. That these are really stems, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"QuiCK-GRASS. uite, ad. 1. Completely, wholly, entirely, totally, perfectly. 2.
[Colloquial.] Very, considerably, in a great degree, to a great extent. ..."
5. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology: Illustrated by Over 360 by Asa Gray (1880)
"64), the Scotch Rose, the Couch-grass or Quick-grass, and many other plants,
spread so rapidly and widely, " by the root," as it is said. ..."
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