weeds

«weeds» in Mova's judaism dictionary: wild plants that grow where people do not want them, such… — 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, plural (weeds; singular: weed); verb form of «weed» (weeds)

meaning for a pupil

1) Weeds are wild plants that grow where people do not want them, such as in gardens, lawns or fields, and take light, water and space from the plants people want. tree →

2) «Weeds» is the he/she form of the verb «weed»: «she weeds the garden» means she pulls out the weeds. tree →

3) Water weeds or seaweeds are plants that grow in water. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Wild plants nobody wants. In Job, "noisome weeds" are what grows in place of barley as a curse, and in Jonah weeds means seaweed wrapped around his head in the deep. Interpretation: Job's words are read as a oath that he would accept a curse if he had done wrong. Jonah's seaweed is read as a picture of being near death before God saved him. In the primary lessons: In science lessons pupils learn that weeds compete with crops for light, water and nutrients, and that one gardener's weed (a dandelion, clover) is food for bees and other wildlife. In everyday life children help «pull up weeds» or «do the weeding». Phrases: «pull up the weeds», «overgrown with weeds», «weed out» (remove the bad ones).

examples

• Although there is an exuberance of weeds, we will find, nevertheless, many germs of truisms, which are of the greatest importance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) tree →
• The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head. (Prophets JON.2.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• The garden is full of weeds. tree →
• We pulled up the weeds from the vegetable patch. tree →
• Dandelions are weeds, but bees love them. tree →
• Weeds grew between the paving stones. tree →
• Grandpa weeds his garden every Saturday. tree →
• The pond is choked with weeds. tree →
• Weeds take water from the plants we want. tree →
• It was in a corner that he lay, among weeds and nettles. tree →

note

Singular: weed. «Weed out» = remove unwanted things («weed out the mistakes»). «Weed» is also slang for cannabis, a drug — a different meaning. A weed is not a special kind of plant — it is any plant in the wrong place.

In the corpora

• Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.
• A week or so later, long strings of eggs wound round the weeds in deeper water show that toads have come too.
• Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.
• All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.
• Hay fever is an allergy to pollen from grass, trees or weeds, and you cannot catch it from anyone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «weeds» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.