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WEEDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
Synonyms:
weeds; widow's weeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("weeds" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb weed
Context examples:
Any chemical substance, biological agent or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, including insects, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes (roundworms) and microbes that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread or are a vector for disease or are a nuisance.
(Pesticide, NCI Thesaurus)
The rice plants that produce sorgoleone should require less herbicides to control weeds.
(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
It was perhaps a part of Mrs. Heep's humility, that she still wore weeds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The compound sorgoleone, secreted by sorghum, helps the plant combat weeds.
(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In earlier studies, the researchers successfully increased sorgoleone to make sorghum more resistant to weeds, which would help growers who do not rotate sorghum with other crops.
(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
“Mrs. David Copperfield, I think,” said Miss Betsey; the emphasis referring, perhaps, to my mother's mourning weeds, and her condition.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
God knows I had no part in it while they remained there, but it pained me to think of the dear old place as altogether abandoned; of the weeds growing tall in the garden, and the fallen leaves lying thick and wet upon the paths.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She named no names, she said; let them the cap fitted, wear it; but spies, intruders, and informers, especially in widders' weeds (this clause was underlined), she had ever accustomed herself to look down upon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
