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Definition of Scutch grass
1. Noun. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Cynodon, Genus Cynodon
Medical Definition of Scutch grass
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutch Grass
Literary usage of Scutch grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1776-1779) by Arthur Young, John Parker Anderson (1892)
"Fallowed it to destroy scutch grass for maslin, and then a crop of «pring corn
with grass seed. This is the course in which the rou^h ground has been ..."
2. Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1776-1779) by Arthur Young, John Parker Anderson (1892)
"Baron Hamilton has been a considerable improver ; he took in near Hampton 150
acres, mountain land, covered with scutch grass, ..."
3. Trye v. Leinster; or, An Englishman's experience of the working of the by Henry Norwood Trye, Charles William Fitzgerald Leinster (1874)
"1r., in barley stubb'les— a mass of scutch-grass. No. 16, 14a. 1r. 20p., was
under turnips the previous year, which were all sold off the farm. ..."
4. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"... grow over rocks six feet across, or down precipitous embankments, and are most
useful in holding arid and shifting sands. Bermuda Grass. Scutch-grass. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"SCURVY GRASS, s. Galium Aparine. Ws CHES. SCUTCH, s. (i) Triticum repens and
other creeping rooted grasses. Also called SCUTCH-GRASS. ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Also called Scutch-grass, Ches.; Ireland (Antrim, Down, Fermanagh). [Sea is
applied as a qualifying adjective to a great many plant-names, for the most part ..."
7. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"... BERMUDA or scutch grass. An introduced weed chiefly S., where it is useful in
sandy soil, where a better grass is not to be had ; creeping extensively, ..."
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