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 →

2) To weed is to pull weeds out of a garden. tree →

3) (slang) Weed is a slang word for cannabis, an illegal drug. tree →

4) (informal, UK) A weed is a thin, weak person. tree →

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 →
• Dandelions are common weeds. tree →
• Grandma weeds the garden every Sunday. tree →
• Weed out the bad apples. tree →
• Weed is an illegal drug (slang). tree →
• He's a bit of a weed (UK, informal). tree →
• So saying, she quickly collected a bundle of sea-weed, and, blowing it three times, she said: tree →

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.
• A weed is not a kind of plant; it is a plant growing where somebody does not want it.
• The same dandelion is a weed on Dad's lawn and a feast for the first bees of spring.
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

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