crab grass
an annual grass, Digitaria sanguinalis, common in cultivated and waste grounds and often occurring as a pest weed in lawns.
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How to use crab grass in a sentence
In the economy of farmers entirely up against the crab-grass in the cotton-patch, the mule is mightier than the sword.
Oklahoma Sunshine | Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) MillerIn another column a Kansas correspondent speaks of the crab grass in an exceedingly favorable way.
Last spring I fenced twelve acres of old stalk ground well seeded to crab grass.
It is known as crop grass, crab grass, wire grass, and crow's foot (Eleusine Indica).
In my opinion, crab-grass would answer well for pasture-grass in moist situations.
British Dictionary definitions for crab grass
any of several coarse weedy grasses of the genus Digitaria, which grow in warm regions and tend to displace other grasses in lawns
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