Definition of weed

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Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

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Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate..
Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..
Multiseptate :: Multiseptate (a.) Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed..
Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..
Mayweed :: Mayweed (n.) The feverfew.
Silkweed :: Silkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed..
Hoe :: Hoe (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle..
Redweed :: Redweed (n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
Jacana :: "Jacana (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird..
Hogweed :: Hogweed (n.) In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium..
Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty..
Lakeweed :: Lakeweed (n.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America..
Neckweed :: Neckweed (n.) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod..
Extirpate :: Extirpate (v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy..
Orewood :: Orewood (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Sea Scurf :: Sea scurf () Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc..
Adderwort :: Adderwort (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).
Weld :: Weld (n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color..
Ironweed :: Ironweed (n.) A tall weed with purplish flowers (Vernonia Noveboracensis). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
Knapweed :: Knapweed (n.) The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.
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