Definition of weed

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Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..

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Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..
Neckweed :: Neckweed (n.) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod..
Fucoidal :: Fucoidal (a.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone..
Lactescent :: Lactescent (a.) Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex..
Cauda Galli :: Cauda galli () A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit..
Cocklebur :: Cocklebur (n.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur..
Pondweed :: Pondweed (n.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers..
Fucoid :: Fucoid (n.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a..
Bishop''s-weed :: Bishop's-weed (n.) Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).
Bullweed :: Bullweed (n.) Knapweed.
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds..
Naiad :: Naiad (n.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc..
Tweedle :: Tweedle (v. t.) To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure..
Catchweed :: Catchweed (n.) See Cleavers.
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character..
Sea Chickweed :: Sea chickweed () A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane..
Phytolacca :: Phytolacca (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed..
Sea Thongs :: Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Weedy :: Weedy (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons..
Stapes :: Stapelia (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion..
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