goose grass

Noun

• coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

• annual weedy grass used for hay

• low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia

• annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  yardgrass , yard grass , wire grass , Eleusine indica , Texas millet , Panicum Texanum , silverweed , goose-tansy , Potentilla anserina , cleavers , clivers , catchweed , spring cleavers , Galium aparine