kweek

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Dutch[edit]

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Elymus repens

Pronunciation[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch queke, from Old Dutch *kwika, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Compare German Quecke and English quitch.

Noun[edit]

kweek f or m (uncountable)

  1. couch grass, quackgrass, quitch (Elymus repens syn. Elytrigia repens)
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From kweken.

Noun[edit]

kweek m (plural kweken, diminutive kweekje n)

  1. cultivation of crops
  2. (Suriname, always in the diminutive) foster child

Anagrams[edit]

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