pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
weeder weed-whacker | a hand tool for removing weeds |
weed mourning band | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning |
dill dill weed | aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning |
common dogbane spreading dogbane rheumatism weed Apocynum androsaemifolium | North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes, used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints |
Indian hemp rheumatism weed Apocynum cannabinum | Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans, used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints |
skunk cabbage polecat weed foetid pothos Symplocarpus foetidus | deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe |
pearlwort pearlweed pearl-weed | any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls |
alligator weed alligator grass Alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers, clogs waterways with dense floating masses |
field pennycress French weed fanweed penny grass stinkweed mithridate mustard Thlaspi arvense | foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods, naturalized throughout North America |
groundsel tree groundsel bush consumption weed cotton-seed tree Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
coreopsis tickseed tickweed tick-weed | any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods, North and South America |
Joe-Pye weed spotted Joe-Pye weed Eupatorium maculatum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads |
Joe-Pye weed purple boneset trumpet weed marsh milkweed Eupatorium purpureum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple |
rabbitweed rabbit-weed snakeweed broom snakeweed broom snakeroot turpentine weed Gutierrezia sarothrae | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
broomweed broom-weed Gutierrezia texana | annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers |
rattlesnake weed Hieracium venosum | a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves, Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky |
pineapple weed rayless chamomile Matricaria matricarioides | annual aromatic weed of Pacific coastal areas (United States and northeastern Asia) having bristle-pointed leaves and rayless yellow flowers |
dyer's weed Solidago rugosa | eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are (or were) used in dyeing |
stemless golden weed Stenotus acaulis Haplopappus acaulis | dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads, sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus |
Virginia crownbeard frostweed frost-weed Verbesina virginica | tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers, the eastern United States |
agueweed ague weed five-flowered gentian stiff gentian Gentianella quinquefolia Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
orange grass nitweed pineweed pine-weed Hypericum gentianoides | annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers |
klammath weed Hypericum perforatum | yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands |
frostweed frost-weed frostwort Helianthemum canadense Crocanthemum canadense | perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers, soalled because ice crystals form on it during first frosts |
soapweed soap-weed soap tree Yucca elata | tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States |
coffee senna mogdad coffee styptic weed stinking weed Senna occidentalis Cassia occidentalis | very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee, sometimes classified in genus Cassia |
indigo broom horsefly weed rattle weed Baptisia tinctoria | much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers, distributed from Massachusetts to Florida |
prairie mimosa prickle-weed Desmanthus ilinoensis | perennial herb of North American prairies having dense heads of small white flowers |
locoweed crazyweed crazy weed | any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock |
pickerelweed pickerel weed wampee Pontederia cordata | American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds |
Bermuda buttercup English-weed Oxalis pesaprae Oxalis cernua | South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers |
caltrop devil's weed Tribulus terestris | tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets, serious pasture weed |
skunkweed skunk-weed Polemonium viscosum | tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell |
scorpionweed scorpion weed phacelia | any plant of the genus Phacelia |
cancerweed cancer weed Salvia lyrata | sage of eastern United States |
blue pimpernel blue skullcap mad-dog skullcap mad-dog weed Scutellaria lateriflora | an American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic |
turpentine camphor weed camphorweed vinegarweed Trichostema lanceolatum | aromatic plant of western United States |
jimsonweed jimson weed Jamestown weed common thorn apple apple of Peru Datura stramonium | intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits |
snow-on-the-mountain snow-in-summer ghost weed Euphorbia marginata | annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk |
weed | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
butterfly weed orange milkweed chigger flower chiggerflower pleurisy root tuber root Indian paintbrush Asclepias tuberosa | erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers |
herbicide weedkiller weed killer | a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth |
weed | clear of weeds, weed the garden |
weed out comb out | remove unwanted elements, The company weeded out the incompetent people, The new law weeds out the old inequities |