noun
- a sedge plant with triangular stems and small nutlike tubers that is considered a persistent weed
Usage: botany
Examples
- The nutgrass in our lawn is extremely difficult to remove.
- Nutgrass spreads through underground tubers that can survive harsh conditions.
- The gardener used a special herbicide to control the nutgrass invasion.
- Even after pulling nutgrass by hand, it often grows back from remaining tubers.
- Nutgrass is one of the most troublesome weeds in warm climates.
- The triangular stems help identify nutgrass from regular grass.