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/wiːd/ · noun
(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing..
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.
I weeded my flower bed.
If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field.
Use weed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Weed means (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing..
Common synonyms include gage, pot, grass, sess.
Possible antonyms include cultivated plant.
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
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