weed

IPA: wˈid

(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
(uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
(uncountable, informal) Cannabis.
(with "the", uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
(obsolete, countable) A cigar.
(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
(countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
(countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
(Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
Short for duckweed. [Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.]

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
(figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

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