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weedy

[wee-dee] / ˈwi di /


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Alongside their release, the authority have planted suitable plants for the birds to feed on - including "weedy" wildflowers like fumitory and vetch.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

On a recent Sunday morning, in the weedy parking lot of a strip mall in Wayne, N.J.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they can be more easily distinguished from their wild and weedy counterparts.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

Brown spots, weedy spots, soggy areas and excessive water on the sidewalk or driveway are all signs of an irrigation system that may need attention.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Out in the river, a few feet away, the punt lay against the weedy piers.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Monarch numbers will probably stay lower than they were in a weedier world, but the butterflies lay enough eggs that they can bounce back a bit in just one season, Taylor said.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2014

The traveller had apparently taken his direction with care before he started, however, for he made his way straight to another rock, weedier and more overhanging than the first.

From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

They look weedier than what they call Front Street down to Cowper Centre.

From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Beneath it all I know there is a strata of the Magnificent, but the surface-ground is weedier than ever.

From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by Richard King

It was growing weedier and dirtier each minute.

From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy

Even worse, it seems that the weediest species seem to thrive disproportionately in high CO2 environments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had I not a hundred times been told, when sent to the wood-pile or the weediest part of the garden in my youthful days, that "Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do?"

From Helen's Babies by John Habberton

For of all the stagnant ponds I ever beheld, it is the greenest and weediest.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."

From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair


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