weed
Plural: weeds
Noun
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
- street names for marijuana
- Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- Ellipsis of duckweed.
- Underbrush; low shrubs.
- A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- Cannabis.
- A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- Tobacco.
- A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- A cigar.
- A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- A garment or piece of clothing.
- Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
- An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
- A hatband.
- Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
- 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.
- Lymphangitis in a horse.
Verb
Verb Forms: weeded, weeding, weeds
- To remove unwanted plants or elements.
- clear of weeds
- "weed the garden"
- To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- simple past and past participle of wee
Examples
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- I weeded my flower bed.
- If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
- Some Scrabble players weed out low-value tiles early to improve their rack.
- We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
Synonyms
dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, mourning band, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, MJ, Mary Joanna, Texas tea, benj, bhang, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doobage, endo, ganj, ganja, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, marihoochie, marijuana, method, mezz, muggle, mull, puff, reefer, sensimilla, sensimillia, shit, sweetleaf, tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
Antonyms
cultivated plant
Scrabble Score: 8
weed: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordweed: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
weed: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary