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Crabgrass

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Noun

1. crab grass, crabgrass, finger grass

grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crabgrass

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noun
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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Crabgrass

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US
any of several weedy annual grasses (genus Digitaria) which spread rapidly because of their freely rooting stems, becoming a pest in lawns and gardens

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crabgrass

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n.
Any of certain annual grasses of the genus Digitaria, having prostrate stems that root at the nodes and widely naturalized in North America as weeds in lawns and agricultural fields.

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