The Collaborative International Dictionary
kweek \kweek\ n. A trailing grass ( Cynodon dactylon) native to Europe, now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in the Southern U. S. and India. Called also Bahama grass and Bermuda grass.
Syn: Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass, Cynodon dactylon.
Bermuda grass \Ber*mu"da grass`\ (Bot.) A kind of grass ( Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
Usage examples of "bermuda grass".
The tough Bermuda grass was mown every night by the gardening robots, but it was still like walking over a layer of thick sponge in the morning.
The quarter acre yard was smaller than he remembered, although it was immense by southern California standards, and the untended Bermuda grass lawn, flanked by now-weedy flowerbeds, stretched away toward the back fence and garden as ever, with the same orange trees and the big avocado tree that had shaded it since as early as he could remember.
And when an astronaut arrived, it was as if they dropped out of the sky or rose up from out of the Bermuda grass.
By the end of August, even those would give up the ghost and the city would turn green: glossy beryl banana trees with canoe-sized leaves, jade swamp oak, and acre upon emerald acre of bermuda grass.
Instead of following the plain tracks toward the ravine, Tommy cut straight across the firebreak strip and, getting down on hands and knees, crawled out of sight into the Bermuda grass.
It exposed tall Bermuda grass on one side of the car, palm trees and purplish sky on the other.
The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
Even using silk flags and the lushest Bermuda grass, it hardly seems possible to spend so much to spruce up a few fairways.
But everything was choked with weeds, overrun with blackberry vines and tough clumps of Bermuda grass.
The lawn was covered with the fresh Bermuda grass, planted three weeks before, new as the houses in this just-built development of Hohokam Homes.
The Bermuda grass had risen to the challenge and it was snaking its way through the gravel at a leisurely pace.
Then, leaning out his own side first, he swung them off through the rank Bermuda grass between the cottonwood holes, apparently heading right at a solid wall of close-packed saplings.