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Lawn intruder
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crabgrass
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Word definitions for crabgrass in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because the boomerang is like crabgrass , Tom Arnold and Strom Thurmond, it keeps coming back. ▪ In my case, before becoming a Snavely winner, I was but crabgrass in the Garden of Physics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from crab (n.1) + grass . Originally a marine grass of salt marshes; modern meaning is from 1743. Perhaps partly for its crooked form.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Those members of the genus ''Digitaria'', grasses of tropical to temperate climates, which are pests of lawns, mainly from their invasive habits and the fact they die off in the fall and winter, leaving ugly bare patches.
Usage examples of crabgrass.
And the house that seemed to crouch between them had no lawn anymore, eitherjust a tangle of heat-blanched goatsfoot and crabgrass and a single incredibly stubborn patch of dusty, wilted pachysandra that had refused to die even though no one ever watered it now.
Also a Salicornia, or jointed Glasswort, or Saltwort, or Crabgrass, is sold as Samphire for a pickle, in the Italian oil shops.
He had added little bunches of witchgrass and crabgrass, surrounding clusters of tiny buttercups.