Word Finder - weeds

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

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If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

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Short for duckweed.

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Underbrush; low shrubs.

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A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

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A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

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A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

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Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

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To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

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I weeded my flower bed.

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A garment or piece of clothing.

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Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

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An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

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He wore a weed on his hat.

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(especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

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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.

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Lymphangitis in a horse.

Stay away from the weeds and rocks and you won't have to worry about them.

Sure, you can eat those weeds, but what do they taste like?

If it isn't the skunks and opossum killing the chickens, it's the weeds taking over the garden.

The lawn, if it could be called that, was overgrown with weeds and sadly in need of mowing.

Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, &c., and true parasites which actually live on and in the tissues of the plants.

Harrows and cultivators are used where there are few weeds, and the mulching process is the one desired.

In autumn the withered weeds are torn up by the wind and driven immense distances.

The weeds are easily removed when they are small.

You can crowd out weeds with healthy plants.

After this treatment the upper 2 or 3 in, of soil are well pulverized, and fertilizers added, usually, to prevent reintroduction of seeds of weeds, in the form of guano or chemical manures.

A few years ago the wheat received from the north-west was very clean indeed, but since the new land has all been cultivated the fields are growing more weedy, with the result that the wheat brought in is becoming mixed with oats and seeds of weeds, requiring more careful separating and inspection.

Of the total 200 species 150 (130 indigenous) are valuable for forage, 34 (20 indigenous) are classed economically as weeds, 10 are non-indigenous cereals and 6 are ornamental.

Weeds are very numerous (about 125); and some, notably the sand-bur (Solanum rostratum) cockle-bur, and tumble-weeds among indigenous, and the Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) and purslane among non-indigenous species, are agricultural pests.

Gathering the weeds took precious time, but the energy the horse would sustain from it might save their lives in the near future.

Think of the possibilities if we could reduce pollination of weeds and intrusive vegetation.

Later, thinking back, he realized it was on that one-hour bike trip the first few seeds of comprehension began to sprout something besides weeds in the garden of his mind.

Remove all weeds and rubble and level off using a compactor and spirit level, to ensure a firm, even surface.

May be the man you hoe with is inclined to race; then, by gorry, your mind must be there; you think of weeds.

A long war, not with cranes, but with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side.

This is particularly distinct to one standing on the middle of the pond in winter, just after a light snow has fallen, appearing as a clear undulating white line, unobscured by weeds and twigs, and very obvious a quarter of a mile off in many places where in summer it is hardly distinguishable close at hand.

It takes awhile, but if you can remove weeds from your garden before they begin to mature and seed then you will have fewer weeds to deal with next year and fewer the year after that.

Southern customers objected to its blue color, which is the evidence of its purity, as if it were muddy, and preferred the Cambridge ice, which is white, but tastes of weeds.

It is useful for ground clearance and can be replenished when weeds start to grow through.

There could possibly be more to come, now I 've removed the infestation of weeds from the vicinity of the rhubarb plants.

In the nursery, where there are lots of lovely little annual Rudbeckias, there are a number of little weeds starting to sprout.

Want to smother the weeds on your plot with layers of old carpet?

Conventional soybean growers have used cover crops successfully in conjunction with herbicides to reduce cultivation and control weeds.

Let them not pass like weeds away, Their heritage a sunless day !

So the fence came down and we trampled down the weeds and it all looks really good.

However, managed well they can help suppress pest species and reduce the ingress of troublesome weeds.

Consider Spring/Summer fallowing Weeds should also be removed from fence lines and, ideally, from neighboring land to avoid spread from wind-borne seed.

The farmer did his best to extirpate all of the weeds in his garden.

Looking at the old neighborhood park, you could tell that it had been treated with neglect because of the graffiti and overgrown weeds.

No matter what herbicides she used, weeds would continue to sprout around her tomato plants.

While the weather is warm, Jim is going to mow the lawn, wash the cars, tend to the weeds, etc.

I worry because periodically my lawn is sprayed for weeds.

You can stop having weed control sprayed on your yard, and remove your weeds the old-fashioned way.

This type of compost adds needed nutrients to your garden and reduces weeds.

Mulch is simply broken down organic matter and can be used to protect plants from the elements and prevent the growth of weeds.

The lowest category weeds out the comforters priced under $60, with several priced under $40.

Mary-Kate joined the award-winning cast of Showtime's Weeds to play the role of Tara Lindman, a girl completely devoted to all things Christian, but still partakes in a little recreational drug use.

She had a semi-regular role in the television series Weeds, and starred alongside Ben Kingsley in the movie The Wackness in 2008.

Children have a habit of growing faster than weeds and, in a tough economy especially, few people want to spend a lot of money on a dress that their child will only wear one time.

I have found this a most useful bold edging to large beds, and growing so close that it will keep all weeds off.

An excellent plant for shrubberies and covering the ground here and there in bold masses, as it grows so close that it keeps the weeds down, and in such ways also gives a better effect than in small tufts in the mixed border.

Italy, forming low, dense tufts, sheeted with rosy-pink, their beauty conspicuous among the weeds.

Common by some river-banks, and growing with water-side weeds in garden ponds and lakes, flowering in summer rose-red in bold umbels.

Joy-Weed (Alternanthera) - Little Brazilian weeds of the Amaranthus order, which, owing to their color, have been used in our gardens to an extent far beyond their merits.

Usually these plants are not fit for garden culture, but some are troublesome weeds.

Mayweed (Matricaria) - Weeds, excepting the double variety of M. inodora, which is a pretty plant with feathery foliage somewhat like Fennel, and with large white flowers, perfectly double.