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

↑Egyptian grass, ↑crowfoot grass, ↑Dactyloctenium aegypticum, ↑smooth crabgrass, ↑Digitaria ischaemum, ↑large crabgrass, ↑hairy finger grass, ↑Digitaria sanguinalis

2. any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils

1. : crabgrass 1a

2. : any grass of the genus Chloris

3. : yard grass

any of various grasses of the genus Chloris, having several narrow spikes in a terminal cluster. Also called windmill grass.

[1815-25, Amer.]