crabgrass

crab·grass or crab grass  (krbgrs)

n.

Any of certain grasses of the genus Digitaria, especially D. sanguinalis or D. ischaemum, widely naturalized in North America.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

crabgrass - grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns crab grass, finger grass grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay crowfoot grass, Dactyloctenium aegypticum, Egyptian grass - a creeping grass with spikes like fingers Digitaria, genus Digitaria - crab grass; finger grass Digitaria ischaemum, smooth crabgrass - a weed Digitaria sanguinalis, hairy finger grass, large crabgrass - a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States