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weed

Pronunciation: /wiːd/

The English word “weed” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
  2. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  3. Cannabis.
  4. Tobacco.
  5. A cigar.
  6. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
  7. A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
  8. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  9. A garment or piece of clothing.
  10. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  11. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  12. A hatband.
  13. Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
  14. 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.
  15. Lymphangitis in a horse.

verb

  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
  2. To pilfer the best items from a collection.
  3. To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

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.

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