quackgrass vs wheat-grass

quackgrass and wheat-grass both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quackgrass	Yes	No	No	No
wheat-grass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wheat-grass is a hypernym of quackgrass; that is, wheat-grass is a word with a broader meaning than quackgrass:

quackgrass: European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
wheat-grass: a grass of the genus Agropyron

Other hypernyms of quackgrass include wheatgrass.

quackgrass (noun)	wheat-grass (noun)
European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed	a grass of the genus Agropyron