- [countable] a wild plant growing where it is not wanted, especially among crops or garden plants
- The yard was overgrown with weeds.
- Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
- There were weeds pushing up through the gravel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- annual
- perennial
- aquatic
- …
- kill
- clear
- get rid of
- …
- grow
- spread
- spring up
- …
- control
- killer
- trimmer
- …
- [uncountable] any wild plant without flowers that grows in water and forms a green floating massTopics Plants and treesc1
- the weed[singular] (humorous) tobacco or cigarettes
- I wish I could give up the weed (= stop smoking).
- [uncountable] (informal) the drug cannabisTopics Social issuesc2
- [countable] (British English, informal, disapproving) a person with a weak character or body
- Don’t be such a weed!
Word OriginOld English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb).
Idioms
See weed in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin the weeds (North American English, informal)
- with more problems, work or commitments than you can manage
- The bartender was alone and in the weeds, so we had to wait twenty minutes to order.
- too concerned with the details of something
- I don't want to get too deep in the weeds here, but here's the short version:…
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