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Weeds

/wiːdz/

Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.

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📖 Definitions of "Weeds"

noun

1
Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
"If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed."
2
Short for duckweed.
3
Underbrush; low shrubs.
4
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

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.
3
An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
"He wore a weed on his hat."
4
(especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

noun

1
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
2
Lymphangitis in a horse.

🔄 Synonyms of "Weeds"

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Word	Definition
mourning bandnoun	a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning

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