weednoun
uk/wiːd/us/wiːd/weed noun (PLANT)
C2 [ C ] any wild plant that grows in an unwanted place, especially in a garden or field where it prevents the cultivated plants from growing freely
[ U ] slang → cannabis
[ U ] UK old-fashioned informal → tobacco
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Types of plant
- alpine
- annual
- bedding plant
- biennial
- cereal
- citronella
- grower
- hardy
- herb
- herbaceous
- herbal
- perennial
- pot plant
- potted
- rattan
- root crop
- tuber
- vegetable
- veggie
- woody
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Specific types of drug
Tobacco & smoking
weed noun (PERSON)
[ C ] UK informal disapproving someone who is thin and physically weak or who is weak in character:
He looks like a real weed in those shorts.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- faint
- frailty
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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weedverb [ I or T ]
uk/wiːd/us/wiːd/to remove wild plants from a place where they are not wanted:
I've been weeding (the vegetable garden).
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Gardening - general words
- arborist
- bed
- bed sth out
- bonsai
- cutting
- deadhead
- grass
- hedgerow
- hoe
- homegrown
- horticulture
- hydroponics
- landscape gardening
- nurse
- seed
- sow 1
- topiary
- tree surgeon
- trellis
- uproot
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weeding
noun [ U ] uk/ˈwiː.dɪŋ/us/ˈwiː.dɪŋ/
There's plenty of weeding to do now that the growing season's started.
Phrasal verb(s)
weed sth/sb out