Weed

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
 * 1)  A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
 * 2) Short for duckweed
 * 3)  Marijuana.
 * 4)  Tobacco.
 * 5)  A cigar.
 * 6)  A horse unfit to breed from.
 * 7)  A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
 * 8)  A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
 * 9)  Underbrush; low shrubs.
 * 10)  Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:marijuana

Derived terms

 * goutweed
 * hawkweed
 * horseweed
 * knapweed
 * knotweed


 * milkweed
 * pigweed
 * ragweed
 * tumbleweed

Verb

 * 1) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
 * I weeded my flower bed.

Noun

 * 1)  A garment or piece of clothing.
 * 2)  Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
 * 1819, These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
 * 1)  widow's weeds Female mourning apparel

Verb
weed



Thesaurus
Canada thistle, DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, abate, abrade, abstract, acid, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, antidepressant, aquatic plant, ataractic, backset, bate, biennial, black sheep, blemish, bones, boo, brake, burdock, burr, cannabis, chaff, chicory, cosmopolite, crab grass, creeping buttercup, culm, cultivate, culture, curtail, cut, cutting, dandelion, deadwood, deciduous plant, decrease, deduct, delve, depreciate, derogate, detract, dicot, dicotyledon, diethyltryptamine, dig, dimethyltryptamine, diminish, dishwater, disparage, dock, draff, drain, dregs, dress, dust, eat away, ephemeral, erode, evergreen, exotic, extract, fallow, fertilize, file away, filings, flowering plant, force, foreign body, foreign intruder, fungus, gage, gametophyte, ganja, garbage, gash, grass, gymnosperm, hallucinogen, harrow, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, hoe, hogwash, horsetail, husks, hydrophyte, impair, impurity, intruder, jimsonweed, joint, kava, leach, leavings, lees, lessen, list, mallow, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, milkweed, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, misfit, monkey wrench, monocot, monocotyl, morning glory seeds, mote, mulch, mustard, nettle, oddball, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, perennial, peyote, plant, plantain, plow, poison ivy, poke, pokeweed, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pot, potsherds, prune, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, purify, rags, rake, raspings, reduce, reefer, refine, refuse, remove, retrench, roach, rub away, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, seed plant, seedling, shards, shavings, shorten, slack, slag, sliver, slop, slops, spade, speck, spermatophyte, splinter, sporophyte, stick, stone, stubble, subduct, subtract, sweepings, swill, take away, take from, tares, tea, thallophyte, thin, thin out, thistle, till, till the soil, tranquilizer, triennial, vascular plant, vegetable, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wear away, weed out, weeds, withdraw, work

Etymology 1
From weod:.

Etymology 2
From weodian:.

Etymology 3
From wæd: <. Compare Dutch lijnwaad:, gewaad:.

Etymology 4
From the verb wee:.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: mala herba
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 野草
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ukrudt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, chiendent, adventice
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: illgresi
 * Ido: mala herbo
 * Icelandic: illgresi
 * Ido: mala herbo


 * Indonesian: rumput liar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, zielsko
 * Portuguese: erva daninha
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, сорная трава
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: mala hierba, maleza, yuyo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కలుపు
 * Thai:
 * West Frisian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: kroos


 * Dutch: zwakkeling
 * Japanese: ヒヨッコ, 役立たず


 * Polish: cherlak,
 * Spanish: parásito
 * Swahili:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 香煙
 * Japanese:, ,


 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * German: Glimmstängel,
 * Japanese:


 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * Albanian: Marijuane
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, marie-jeanne
 * German:
 * Icelandic: gras


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クサ
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: trawka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gräs


 * Swahili:


 * Japanese:
 * Polish: zielsko


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish:


 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Czech: plít
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: gyomlál
 * Japanese: 雑草を抜く, 草取りをする


 * Korean:, 매다김
 * Mandarin: 除去莠草
 * Polish: plewić, odchwaszczać
 * Romanian: a plivi
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Dutch: lijngewaad