WITCHGRASS - Definition

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	Definition:	[n] European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed [n] North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land

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	Synonyms:	Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, tumble grass, witch grass

	See Also:	panic grass, wheatgrass

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	Definition:	Witch Grass Raymond Queneau`s first novel, published in 1933, is the circuitous story of a bank clerk whose mind-numbing job has stifled his identity. But one day, entirely by accident, he is awakened, and utterly changed. This transformation is witnessed by a man in a cafi. Eventually, the two team up, and share an obsession with a fortune that is purported to lie in a junk dealer`s shop. Throughout his strange and hilarious story, Queneau plays with truth, falsity, language, mathematics, and philosophy in ways that look ahead to his later association with the formalist Oulipo movement. more details ...