Noun

1. Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

   If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

2. A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
3. Short for duckweed
4. Marijuana.
5. Tobacco.
6. A cigar.
7. A horse unfit to breed from.
8. A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
9. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
10. Underbrush; low shrubs.
11. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Verb

1. To remove weeds (unwanted vegetation) from (a cultivated area).

   I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

Noun

1. A garment or piece of clothing.
2. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

   • 1819, These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

3. widow's weeds Female mourning apparel