Weed

Quick meaning: Weed is a noun meaning (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

Meaning

(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

More Meanings

1. Ellipsis of duckweed.
2. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
3. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
4. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
5. (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
6. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
7. (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).

Example Sentences

I weeded my flower bed.

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.

If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

Word Forms

• weeds
• weeding
• weeded

Synonyms for weed

Depending on context, synonyms include gage, pot, grass, sess, dope, cannabis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cannabis, marijuana, ganja, marihuana, grass, pot.

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