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# weed

«weed» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild plant growing where it is not wanted** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a weed, weeds); verb (weed, weeds, weeded, weeding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A weed is a wild plant growing where it is not wanted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#m1)

2) To weed is to pull weeds out of a garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#m2)

3) (slang) Weed is a slang word for cannabis, an illegal drug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#m3)

4) (informal, UK) A weed is a thin, weak person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In gardening and science, weeds compete with crops. In safety, weed as a drug is harmful. Phrases: weed out, pull weeds.

### examples

- We pulled weeds from the vegetable patch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x1)
- Dandelions are common weeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x2)
- Grandma weeds the garden every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x3)
- Weed out the bad apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x4)
- Weed is an illegal drug (slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x5)
- He's a bit of a weed (UK, informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x6)
- So saying, she quickly collected a bundle of sea-weed, and, blowing it three times, she said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/#x7)

### note

Countable plant noun. Verb: weeded. «Weed out» = remove the unwanted ones. Safety: drugs are dangerous.

### In the corpora

- [A week or so later, long strings of eggs wound round the weeds in deeper water show that toads have come too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/1/)
- [A weed is not a kind of plant; it is a plant growing where somebody does not want it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/0/)
- [The same dandelion is a weed on Dad's lawn and a feast for the first bees of spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/1/)
- [Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/2/)
- [All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «weed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.