weedy
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A weedy meadow Full of burdock and daisies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
And then suddenly she’s serious, talking about this weedy strip on Main Street, not far from where she’s working now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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
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
Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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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 Mundy, Talbot
The Humming-bird, growing weedier and weaker, revived in her presence; he relaxed a little of his moroseness and austerity.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
They look weedier than what they call Front Street down to Cowper Centre.
From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Jewett, Sarah Orne
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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Even worse, it seems that the weediest species seem to thrive disproportionately in high CO2 environments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Hogarth, Georgina
The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."
From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May
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 Habberton, John