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Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

Weed :: Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant..

Sargasso :: Sargasso (n.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf.

Water Hyacinth :: Water hyacinth () Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed..

Quitch Grass :: Quitch grass () A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix..

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate..

Lactescent :: Lactescent (a.) Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex..

Asclepias :: Asclepias (n.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties..

Knapweed :: Knapweed (n.) The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.

Weeding :: Weeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wee.

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..

Greenweed :: Greenweed (n.) See Greenbroom.

Withwind :: Withwind (n.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

Smartweed :: Smartweed (n.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender..

Monarch :: Monarch (n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

Jewelweed :: Jewelweed (n.) See Impatiens.

Jointweed :: "Jointweed (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers..

Dock :: Dock (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination..

Ramsted :: Ramsted (n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.

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