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    WEED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: weed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Street names for marijuanaplay

    Synonyms:

    dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("weed" is a kind of...):

    cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourningplay

    Synonyms:

    mourning band; weed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("weed" is a kind of...):

    band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Any plant that crowds out cultivated plantsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("weed" is a kind of...):

    tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weed"):

    madnep; wild parsnip (biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip)

    tumbleweed (any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass)

    nettle (any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae))

    cockle-bur; cockle-burr; cocklebur; cockleburr (any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs)

    groundsel; Senecio vulgaris (Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers)

    benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort (widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity)

    Senecio doublasii; threadleaf groundsel (bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock)

    Hieracium aurantiacum; orange hawkweed; Pilosella aurantiaca (European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium)

    bitterweed; bristly oxtongue; bugloss; oxtongue; Picris echioides (widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States)

    bastard feverfew; Parthenium hysterophorus (tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States)

    California dandelion; capeweed; cat's-ear; gosmore; Hypochaeris radicata (European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears)

    Hieracium praealtum; king devil; yellow hawkweed (European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds)

    Erechtites hieracifolia; fireweed (an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers)

    Canadian fleabane; Conyza canadensis; Erigeron canadensis; fleabane; horseweed (common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron)

    Barnaby's thistle; Centaurea solstitialis; yellow star-thistle (European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States)

    thistle (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)

    ambrosia; bitterweed; ragweed (any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma)

    pennycress (any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi)

    jointed charlock; Raphanus raphanistrum; runch; wild radish; wild rape (Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits)

    Erysimum cheiranthoides; wormseed mustard (slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed; formerly used as an anthelmintic)

    Barbarea vulgaris; rockcress; rocket cress; Sisymbrium barbarea; yellow rocket (noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium)

    alligator grass; alligator weed; Alternanthera philoxeroides (prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses)

    carpetweed; Indian chickweed; Molluga verticillata (annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America)

    sand spurry; sea spurry; Spergularia rubra (prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America)

    corn spurrey; corn spurry; Spergula arvensis (small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers)

    knawe; knawel; Scleranthus annuus (widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers)

    Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field (European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America)

    Antonym:

    cultivated plant (plants that are grown for their produce)

    Derivation:

    weed (clear of weeds)

    weedy (abounding with or resembling weeds)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they weed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it weeds  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: weeded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: weeded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: weeding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Clear of weedsplay

    Example:

    weed the garden

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "weed" is one way to...):

    remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weed"):

    stub (clear of weeds by uprooting them)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s PP

    Derivation:

    weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

    weeder (a hand tool for removing weeds)

    weeder (a farmhand hired to remove weeds)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    I know not why the young shoots should be plucked, and an old weed left standing, yet certes there must be some good reason, since God hath so planned it.

    (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    My bed was the same dry grass and sea-weed which I intended for fuel.

    (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

    Especially during his stretches of famine he suffered from lack of the weed; but no matter how often he mastered the craving, it remained with him as strong as ever.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    Amitrole is a widely used herbicide for nonfood croplands to control annual and perennial grass type weeds, pondweeds and broad leaf.

    (Amitrole, NCI Thesaurus)

    He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    He found a weed that tasted sour and he ate all he could find of it, which was not much, for it was a creeping growth, easily hidden under the several inches of snow.

    (Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

    This strange, wild story seemed to have come to us from amid the mad elements—blown in upon us like a sheet of sea-weed in a gale—and now to have been reabsorbed by them once more.

    (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    Any chemical substance, biological agent or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, including insects, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes (roundworms) and microbes that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread or are a vector for disease or are a nuisance.

    (Pesticide, NCI Thesaurus)

    It was perhaps a part of Mrs. Heep's humility, that she still wore weeds.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    Producing sorgoleone in other crops would potentially give those plants the ability to fight weeds and reduce reliance on synthetic herbicides.

    (Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)


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