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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

Marie Massa has spent more than three years working mostly alone to transform a weedy strip of public land into a fragrant habitat garden in Lincoln Heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

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

Consequently, certain fast-growing, weedy species, including macroalgae, cyanobacteria, and fire coral, thrive in the absence of competitors, spreading into the vacant spaces left by the decimated corals.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024

Felix had heard Pookie barking next door, and when the weedy monster landed in his yard, he started barking as well.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

It was growing weedier and dirtier each minute.

From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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