quitchgrass

== English == === Alternative forms === quitch grass === Etymology === From quitch +‎ grass. === Noun === quitchgrass (uncountable) A species of grass, Elymus repens. 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,[2] The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants. 1888, Hawaiian Planters’ Monthly, Honolulu: Planters’ Labor and Supply Co., Volume VII, p. 486,[3] […] the weed called honohono in Hawaiian, popularly known abroad as Quitchgrass—a weed which every planter in wet districts on our islands has been troubled with and found to be a costly enemy.