weed

any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

Definitions

n: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
n: a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
n: street names for marijuana
v: clear of weeds

Parts of Speech

n, v

Examples

v: weed the garden

Synonyms/Antonyms

Synonyms: Mary Jane, dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, mourning band, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed

Antonyms: cultivated plant

Hypernyms (General categories): band, cannabis, remove, vascular plant

Hyponyms (Specific examples): alligator weed, barnaby’s thistle, bastard feverfew, carpetweed, cat’s-ear, cocklebur, corn cockle, corn spurry, fireweed, groundsel, horseweed, jointed charlock, king devil, knawel, nettle, orange hawkweed, oxtongue, pennycress, ragweed, ragwort, sand spurry, stub, thistle, threadleaf groundsel, tumbleweed, wild parsnip, wormseed mustard, yellow rocket

Coordinate Terms: ablate, acapulco gold, amputate, aquatic plant, armband, armlet, aspirate, backband, bail, bail out, bellyband, bone, brush, bulbous plant, bur, burl, carve out, chip away, circumcise, clean, clear, clear off, collar, condense, cormous plant, creeper, crumb, cultivar, cultivated plant, de-iodinate, de-ionate, decalcify, decarbonize, deciduous plant, decorticate, defang, defuse, degas, dehorn, delete, delouse, demineralize, desert plant, desorb, detoxify, dig, discharge, disembowel, dislodge, draw, draw off, dredge, eliminate, empty, enucleate, epilate, evergreen, excavate, exenterate, expectorate, extirpate, extract, flick, garter, geophyte, girdle, gut, halophyte, harvest, head, headband, headstall, herb, hoop, hull, husk, hypophysectomize, knock out, ladle, leach, lift, mesophyte, muck, pick, pit, pot, psilophyte, psilophyton, pteridophyte, pull, ream, resect, rubber band, scale, scalp, scavenge, scoop, seed, shed, shell, shuck, skim, spermatophyte, spoon, stem, strap, string, strip, succulent, sweatband, take away, take off, take out, tear away, tip, tuberous plant, tusk, unburden, undock, unhinge, unpack, unsaddle, unstring, unveil, vine, wash, watchband, wear away, weed, winnow, wipe off, withdraw, woody plant, wristband, wristlet

Derivationally Related Words: dope, smoke, weed, weeder, weedy

Categories

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes

Prefixes:

Suffixes: ed

Other Information

Is Abstract? No

Is Emotion Word? No

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