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• n  a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
• n  any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
• n  a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
• n  street names for marijuana
• v  clear of weeds

• AMC was profoundly in the weeds at the time, and the Gremlin was the company's attempt to beat Ford and GM to the subcompact punch.
• Following the sound, he came to an open hole in a clump of weeds.
• Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear.

• widow's weeds
• weed
• mourning band
• pot
• grass
• green goddess
• dope
• gage
• sess
• sens
• smoke
• skunk
• locoweed
• Mary Jane

• cultivated_plant

News & Articles

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• Got weeds? Hire a goat
  Some environmentally-friendly property owners and land managers prefer using sheep and goats to control weeds and mow lawns.
  June 16, 2013 - Deseret News
• Last Day for Ashland Residents to Trim Tall Weeds
  Ashland Saturday was the deadline for homeowners in Ashland to get those weeds in around their houses trimmed down for fire season. Officials say un-managed weeds can become a fire hazard as temperatures skyrocket and plants dry out. The city ordinance requires grass and weeds be no more than 4-inches tall. And for properties larger than one-acre, there has to be a buffer strip within 30-feet ...
  June 16, 2013 - KOBI - KOTI Medford-Klamath Falls
• Fighting for the 'throwaway' girls
  A winter's thicket of weeds still choked the soil outside Catherine Ferguson Academy late last month when the old school's loudspeaker crackled on.
  June 16, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Cristie Kerr in Golf Channel
  Sit in the weeds and wait,she said. "Wait to kind of strike."
• Andrew Cuomo in International Herald Tribune
  Organized crime still exists,New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told a news conference. "We like to think it's a vestige of the past. It's not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks in society."