Usually means: Unwanted plant in gardens, lawns.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word weed:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. weed, the weed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. weed, weed, the weed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. weed, weed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. weed, the weed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. weed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weed, wee'd, weed: Wordnik
  7. weed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. weed: Wiktionary
  9. weed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. weed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. weed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. weed, the weed: Dictionary.com
  13. weed (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. weed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WEED, Weed (album), Weed (disambiguation), Weed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Weed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. weed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. weed: Rhymezone
  19. weed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. weed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WEED: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Weed: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. weed: Free Dictionary
  24. weed: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. weed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. weed: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. weed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. weed: Natural Health glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. weed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WEED: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. weed: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. weed, weed, weed, weed, weed, weed, weed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. weed: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Weed: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. WEED: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
noun:  (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
noun:  A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Cannabis.
noun:  (with "the", uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
noun:  (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
noun:  (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
noun:  (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
verb:  To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
verb:  (figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
verb:  (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
noun:  (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
noun:  (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
noun:  (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
noun:  (archaic) A hatband.
noun:  (archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
noun:  (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
noun:  (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
noun:  A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
noun:  Short for duckweed. [Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.]

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