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crab·grass

or crab grass (krăb′grăs′)

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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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

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