weedy
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A weedy meadow Full of burdock and daisies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they can be more easily distinguished from their wild and weedy counterparts.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 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
Their masquerade is likely why they don’t have the same leaf-shaped camouflage appendages the leafy seadragon and common or weedy seadragon use to blend in.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
Every house in the neighborhood seemed to have a dog, and they all began barking about the weedy monster.
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
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 Humming-bird, growing weedier and weaker, revived in her presence; he relaxed a little of his moroseness and austerity.
From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair
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
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
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
The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."
From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
