English > weed: 4 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants. |
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| Narrower | Barnaby's thistle, yellow star-thistle, Centaurea solstitialis | European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves |
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| alligator weed, alligator grass, Alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers |
| bastard feverfew, Parthenium hysterophorus | Tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers |
| carpetweed, Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata | annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers |
| cat's-ear, California dandelion, capeweed, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata | European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears |
| cocklebur, cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr | Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs |
| corn cockle, corn campion, crown-of-the-field, Agrostemma githago | European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed |
| corn spurry, corn spurrey, Spergula arvensis | small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers |
| fireweed, Erechtites hieracifolia | An American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers |
| groundsel, Senecio vulgaris | Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers |
| horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis | Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers |
| jointed charlock, wild radish, wild rape, runch, Raphanus raphanistrum | Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits |
| king devil, yellow hawkweed, Hieracium praealtum | European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States |
| knawel, knawe, Scleranthus annuus | widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers |
| nettle | Any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) |
| orange hawkweed, Pilosella aurantiaca, Hieracium aurantiacum | European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays |
| oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss, Picris echioides | widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers |
| pennycress | Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi |
| ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed | Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma |
| ragwort, tansy ragwort, ragweed, benweed, Senecio jacobaea | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers |
| sand spurry, sea spurry, Spergularia rubra | prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers |
| thistle | Any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera ... / genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves |
| threadleaf groundsel, Senecio doublasii | bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads |
| tumbleweed | Any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass |
| wild parsnip, madnep | biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root |
| wormseed mustard, Erysimum cheiranthoides | Slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed |
| yellow rocket, rockcress, rocket cress, Barbarea vulgaris, Sisymbrium barbarea | noxious cress with yellow flowers |
| Broader | vascular plant, tracheophyte | green plant having a vascular system |
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| Opposite | cultivated plant | plants that are grown for their produce |
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| Spanish | mala hierba, maleza, yuyo |
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| Catalan | mala herba |
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| Adjectives | weedy | abounding with or resembling weeds |
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| Verbs | weed | clear of weeds |
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English > weed: 4 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | Clear of weeds. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Example | "weed the garden" |
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| Narrower | stub | Clear of weeds by uprooting them |
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| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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| Spanish | desbrozar, desherbar, escardar, herbar |
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| Catalan | birbar, eixarcolar, treure les males herbes |
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| Nouns | weed | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
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| weeder | a hand tool for removing weeds |
| weeder | a farmhand hired to remove weeds |
