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Definition: Meaning of, weed in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / wiːd /

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weed weeds
  1. [countable] a wild plant growing where it is not wanted that prevents crops or garden flowers from growing properly
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  2. [uncountable] a plant without flowers that grows on water in a large green floating mass [↪  seaweed]
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  3. [countable] British English informal someone who is weak
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  4. like weeds in large numbers
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  5. the weed informal cigarettes or tobacco
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  6. [uncountable] old-fashioned CANNABIS
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  7. (widow's) weeds old use black clothes worn by a woman whose husband has died
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
weed weeded weeded
Present Participle Third Person Singular
weeding weeds
[intransitive and transitive]
  1. to remove unwanted plants from a garden or other place
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weed used in phrases

  • English-weed (noun)
    1. south African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers
  • French weed (noun)
    1. foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
  • Jamestown weed (noun)
    1. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
  • Joe-Pye weed (noun)
    1. north American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads
    2. north American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple
  • alligator weed (noun)
    1. prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
  • butterfly weed (noun)
    1. erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers
  • consumption weed (noun)
    1. a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
  • devil's weed (noun)
    1. tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
  • dill weed (noun)
    1. aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning
  • dyer's weed (noun)
    1. or were eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are used in dyeing
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weed used in phrasal verbs

  • weed out (phrasal verb)
    1. to remove a person or thing that is not suitable or good enough, especially from a group or collection
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Pronunciation: ˈkʌstəmz ˈdjuːti
Parts of Speech: noun
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