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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

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

The weedy fields where the game lived had been leveled and their black soil turned over in neat rows.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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 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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."

From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

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


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