weed | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Any plant 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.
- Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
- I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
2.Ellipsis of duckweed.
3.A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.(informal)
- And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.
- "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars."
4.A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

1.To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- I weeded my flower bed.
2.To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
3.To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
- Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.
4.simple past and past participle of wee

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Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *weud

Old English wēod

Middle English weed

English weed

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).