Weed

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  • noun. A token of mourning, as a black band worn on a man's hat or sleeve.
  • noun. The black mourning clothes of a widow.
  • noun. An article of clothing; a garment.
  • noun. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one that grows where it is not wanted and often grows or spreads fast or takes the place of desired plants.
  • noun. An aquatic plant or alga, especially seaweed.
  • noun. Something considered useless, detrimental, or worthless.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Tobacco.
  • noun. A cigarette.
  • noun. Marijuana.
  • intransitive verb. To clear of weeds.
  • intransitive verb. To remove (weeds). Often used with out:
  • intransitive verb. To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out:
  • intransitive verb. To remove weeds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The vegetative parts of the cotton-plant as opposed to the flowers and fruit.
  • noun. The mad-dog skull-cap or madweed, Scutellaria lateriflora.
  • A reduced form of weeded, past participle of weed.
  • To free from weeds or noxious plants.
  • To take away, as noxious plants; remove what is injurious, offensive, or unseemly; extirpate.
  • To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
  • To root up and remove weeds, or anything resembling weeds.
  • noun. A garment of any sort, especially an outer garment; hence, garments in general, especially the whole costume worn at any one time: now commonly in the plural, and chiefly in the phrase widows' weeds. See widow.
  • noun. A general name for any sudden illness from cold or relapse, usually accompanied by febrile symptoms, taken by women after confinement or during nursing, especially milk-fever or inflammation of the breast.
  • noun. Lymphangitis in the horse, characterized by fever and temporary swelling of the limbs. It appears usually after a period of inactivity.
  • noun. A heavy weight.
  • noun. Any one of those herbaceous plants which are useless and without special beauty, or especially which are positively troublesome.
  • noun. A sorry, worthless animal unfit for the breeding of stock; especially, a leggy, loose-bodied horse; a race-horse having the appearance but wanting the other qualities of a thorough bred.
  • noun. A cigar; with the definite article, tobacco.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
  • noun. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
  • noun. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; ; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman.
  • noun. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  • noun. Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
  • noun. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  • noun. An animal unfit to breed from.
  • noun. Tobacco, or a cigar.
  • noun. a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.
  • transitive verb. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds
  • transitive verb. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; -- commonly used with out.
  • transitive verb. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
  • transitive verb. To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
  • noun. A garment or piece of clothing.
  • noun. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  • noun. widow's weeds Female mourning apparel
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of wee.
  • noun. Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
  • noun. A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
  • noun. Short for duckweed
  • noun. Marijuana.
  • Word Usage
    "There is a plant, or weed, called the Jamestown weed*, of a very singular quality."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aristide  Bede  Ede  Gilead  Mead  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Herb  birth  bramble  bush  courts  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Canada thistle  DET  DMT  LSD  Mary Jane  
    verb-form
    weeded  weeding  weeds  wees