Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual North American grass (Panicum capillare) having open diffuse purplish panicles.
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- noun Any of several
grasses , of the genus Panicum, often found as aweed
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- noun North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
- noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Digging and weeding and planting and tending my flowers, all this serves some primitive instinct, so that I feel much more like a pig rooting for truffles than a woman staking her delphiniums, or pulling up witchgrass, or transplanting phlox from a shady to a sunny spot.
No More Words Reeve Lindbergh 2001
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Digging and weeding and planting and tending my flowers, all this serves some primitive instinct, so that I feel much more like a pig rooting for truffles than a woman staking her delphiniums, or pulling up witchgrass, or transplanting phlox from a shady to a sunny spot.
No More Words Reeve Lindbergh 2001
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K'shar pushed aside the tangled witchgrass and gazed upon the half-metamorphosed milestone with curious golden eyes.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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They found Kellen kneeling by the side of the dirt road, peering at something amid a tangle of brambles and witchgrass.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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He hurriedly made his way through the garden This late in the year, the garden was mostly a tangle of dried brown plants and witchgrass.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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He tossed them over the porch rail and into an ancient flowerbed where only witchgrass and dogweed grew.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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Here I am with my little forty nine-years -- no more hair than a billiard ball, a witchgrass beard that would make good herb-tea, foundations not too solid, feet as long as La Villette -- and with all the rest thin enough to take a bath in a musket-barrel.
Germinie Lacerteux Edmond de Goncourt 1859
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We must accept whatever good can be got out of it, and keep it under as we do sorrel and mullein and witchgrass, by enriching the soil, and sowing good seed in plenty; by good teaching and good books, rather than by wasting our time in talking against it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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We must accept whatever good can be got out of it, and keep it under as we do sorrel and mullein and witchgrass, by enriching the soil, and sowing good seed in plenty; by good teaching and good books, rather than by wasting our time in talking against it.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
hernesheir commented on the word witchgrass
Add "s" and get the common name of another grass.
November 2, 2009
bilby commented on the word witchgrass
Witchgrasss. That's one big-ass grass.
November 2, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word witchgrass
which grass?
November 2, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word witchgrass
Switchgrass.
November 3, 2009
whichbe commented on the word witchgrass
Which witch switches switch?
November 3, 2009