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Weed

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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Ambrosia 76% connected

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

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Bitterweed 76% connected

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.

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Bugloss 76% connected

A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

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Cocklebur 76% connected

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

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Fireweed 76% connected

An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.

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Fleabane 76% connected

One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria.

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Groundsel 76% connected

An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.

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Horseweed 76% connected

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

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Knawel 76% connected

A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.

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Madnep 76% connected

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

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Nettle 76% connected

A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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Oxtongue 76% connected

A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, b…

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Ragweed 76% connected

A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.

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Ragwort 76% connected

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

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Runch 76% connected

The wild radish.

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Thistle 76% connected

Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other p…

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Tumbleweed 76% connected

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairie…

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Band 76% connected

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…

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Cannabis 76% connected

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.

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Ganja 76% connected

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Stub 76% connected

The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a…

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Weeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

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Weeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

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Weedy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.

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Weedy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.

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Gage 92% connected

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperform…

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Grass 92% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Pot 92% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Sens 92% connected

Since.

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Sess 92% connected

To lay a tax upon; to assess.

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Skunk 92% connected

Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an…

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Smoke 92% connected

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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