weedier; weediest
1
: abounding with or consisting of weeds
2
: resembling a weed especially in vigorous growth or ready propagation
3
: noticeably lean and scrawny : lanky
weediness
noun
Examples of weedy in a Sentence
weedy vegetation in the abandoned lot
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Is there anything that can be done to remove the weedy grass?
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Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
Although the flowers are quite lovely and attract native bees and minute pirate bugs (an insect that feeds on thrips, spider mites, and aphids), plants can become weedy if allowed to set seed.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 June 2024
On the Ulithi atoll, in the Federated States of Micronesia, however, some reefs are struggling with a different kind of ecological shift: getting smothered by a single type of weedy coral.
—Fanni Szakal, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
So, in this experiment, Roberts and her students cleared around two acres of grass and poison ivy and shrubs and just kind of weedy non-native species from a streamside that was on campus.
—Sophie McNulty, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
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Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
Although the flowers are quite lovely and attract native bees and minute pirate bugs (an insect that feeds on thrips, spider mites, and aphids), plants can become weedy if allowed to set seed.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 June 2024
On the Ulithi atoll, in the Federated States of Micronesia, however, some reefs are struggling with a different kind of ecological shift: getting smothered by a single type of weedy coral.
—Fanni Szakal, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
So, in this experiment, Roberts and her students cleared around two acres of grass and poison ivy and shrubs and just kind of weedy non-native species from a streamside that was on campus.
—Sophie McNulty, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
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weedy
adjective1
: full or consisting of weeds
a weedy field
2
: like a weed especially in having strong rapid growth
3
: very skinny
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