quitchgrass

suomi-englanti sanakirja

quitchgrass englanniksi

A species of grass, (taxfmt).
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1840, (w), ''(poem)|Sordello'', Book IV, in ''Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011547808

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,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009966856

(..) 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.

{{quote-book|en|year=1917|author=Hiram Alfred Cody|title=Under Sealed Orders|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart|chapter=5|page=47|url=https://archive.org/details/undersealedorder00cody