Grass vs. Weed

Grass vs. Weed — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Grass and Weed

Grassnoun

Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Weednoun

(countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.

If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

Grassnoun

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Weednoun

Short for duckweed.

Grassnoun

(uncountable) A lawn.

Weednoun

Underbrush; low shrubs.

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Grassnoun

Marijuana.

Weednoun

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

Grassnoun

An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

Weednoun

Cannabis.

Grassnoun

Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

Weednoun

Tobacco.

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Grassnoun

Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

Weednoun

A cigar.

Grassnoun

The season of fresh grass; spring.

Weednoun

(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

Grassnoun

That which is transitory.

Weednoun

A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

Grassverb

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

Weednoun

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Grassverb

To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Weednoun

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

Grassverb

(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.

Weednoun

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

Grassverb

(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

Weednoun

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

Grassverb

(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

to grass a fish

Weednoun

(Female) mourning apparel.

He wore a weed on his hat.

Grassnoun

narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

Weednoun

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.

Grassnoun

German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

Weedverb

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Grassnoun

animal food for browsing or grazing

Weedverb

simple past tense and past participle of wee

Grassnoun

street names for marijuana

Weednoun

any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

Grassverb

shoot down, of birds

Weednoun

street names for marijuana

Grassverb

cover with grass;

The owners decided to grass their property

Weedverb

clear of weeds;

weed the garden

Grassverb

spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

Grassverb

cover with grass

Grassverb

feed with grass

Grassverb

give away information about somebody;

He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam