OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15304

weed

/wiːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hierbajo • mala hierba • maleza • monte • yerbajo • yuyo • yuyu
Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse an…
grifa • hierba • mota
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.
alfeñique • parásito
A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 15305

weed

/wiːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aparar • carpir • chapear • desbrozar • desherbar • deshierbar • desmalezar • desyerbar • escardar • sallar
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
I weeded my flower bed.
If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial…
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