transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkwak- ]
noun
Etymology: alteration of quick (grass), alteration of quitch (grass)
Date: circa 1818
: a European grass ( Elytrigia repens syn. Agropyron repens ) that is naturalized throughout North America and spreads by creeping rhizomes — called also couch grass, quitch, twitch, witchgrass