weed
Significat (English)
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- Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- Short for duckweed.
- Underbrush; low shrubs.
- (informal) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- (colloquial) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- (obsolete) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- (informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Synonyms
mourning band
wild grass
clear of weeds
bundle of straw
cut grass
make a border
unwanted flora
ill weed
tall grasses
monday morning disease
sporadic lymphangitis
Mountain Thistle
African embossed plant
graminaceous plants
tall grass
extirpate
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/wiːd/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
Nou
wee
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Small, little.
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