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Meanings of common couch in English

Russian
пырей ползучий
Portuguese
elymus repens
Spanish
elytrigia repens var. vaillantiana
Catalan
elymus repens
Wikidata

Species of grass.

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      Examples for "twitch"
      Examples for "twitch"
      1
      The corners of his lips suddenly worked in the odd little twitch.
      The Red Planet
      2
      In the last ten minutes of class, he would begin to twitch.
      Fantastic Orgy
      3
      Every bodily movement is a gruelling challenge and we've developed another twitch.
      The Guardian
      4
      She looked up at the clock and saw the minute hand twitch.
      Nevermore
      5
      Over the years I've noticed a specific muscle twitch, just here .
      The truth of valor
      1
      Further up there was witchgrass, first sparse, then green and rank .
      The gunslinger
      2
      There was no witchgrass, jimson, pikeweed, whore's hair, or poke salad.
      Night Shift
      3
      It is narrow, really just a double rut with timothy and witchgrass growing on the crown.
      Bag of Bones
      4
      Witchgrass and thistles stuck up through the breaks in the stone.
      Hidden Warrior
      1
      Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room.
      The Harvester
      2
      A traditional thatched teahouse stands on a small rise in a rockery taken over by couch grass.
      Number9Dream
      3
      Come, come, you are not going to try and make us believe that you live on couch grass.
      Original Short Stories — Volume 08
      4
      The bottom of the dry swamps was covered with a couch grass, which, like all the other grasses, was partly withered.
      Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia / From Moreton Ba...
      5
      We have, in the first rank, the couch grass, that execrable weed which three years of stubborn warfare have not succeeded in exterminating.
      The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
      1
      The quitch grass was thicker now, and the struggle harder.
      Under Sealed Orders
      2
      The lesser ones he could sweep away at one stroke, but that quitch grass was more difficult to conquer.
      Under Sealed Orders
      3
      Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.
      Under Sealed Orders
      1
      Dog -grass root, gathered commercially only in Europe costs $1.00 a pound, prewar price 30 cents.
      The new yorker
      1
      Jones' Road was what he called Croke Park and he remembered running on it when cinder track surrounded the scutch grass.
      The Irish Times
      2
      It is pointless planting into ground where there are roots of perennial weeds such as ground elder, scutch grass or bindweed.
      The Irish Times
      Usage of common couch in English
      1
      This space formed the common couch and lounging place of the natives, answering the purpose of a divan in Oriental countries.
      Typee: A Romance of the South Seas