| hoe | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. hoe | a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle. |
| ~ hoe handle | the handle of a hoe. |
| ~ dutch hoe, scuffle hoe, scuffle | a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| v. (creation) | 2. hoe | dig with a hoe.; "He is hoeing the flower beds" |
| ~ farming, husbandry, agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
| ~ till | work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation.; "till the soil" |
| weed | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. weed | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants. |
| ~ agrostemma githago, corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field | European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America. |
| ~ knawe, knawel, scleranthus annuus | widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers. |
| ~ corn spurrey, corn spurry, spergula arvensis | small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers. |
| ~ sand spurry, sea spurry, spergularia rubra | prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America. |
| ~ carpetweed, indian chickweed, molluga verticillata | annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America. |
| ~ alligator grass, alligator weed, alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses. |
| ~ barbarea vulgaris, rockcress, rocket cress, sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket | noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium. |
| ~ erysimum cheiranthoides, wormseed mustard | slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed; formerly used as an anthelmintic. |
| ~ jointed charlock, raphanus raphanistrum, runch, wild radish, wild rape | Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits. |
| ~ pennycress | any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi. |
| ~ ambrosia, bitterweed, ragweed | any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma. |
| ~ thistle | any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves. |
| ~ barnaby's thistle, centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle | European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States. |
| ~ canadian fleabane, conyza canadensis, erigeron canadensis, horseweed, fleabane | common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron. |
| ~ erechtites hieracifolia, fireweed | an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers. |
| ~ hieracium praealtum, king devil, yellow hawkweed | European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds. |
| ~ california dandelion, capeweed, gosmore, hypochaeris radicata, cat's-ear | European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears. |
| ~ bastard feverfew, parthenium hysterophorus | tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States. |
| ~ bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, picris echioides, bugloss | widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States. |
| ~ hieracium aurantiacum, orange hawkweed, pilosella aurantiaca | European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium. |
| ~ senecio doublasii, threadleaf groundsel | bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock. |
| ~ benweed, ragweed, ragwort, senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity. |
| ~ groundsel, senecio vulgaris | Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers. |
| ~ cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur, cockleburr | any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs. |
| ~ nettle | any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae). |
| ~ tumbleweed | any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass. |
| ~ madnep, wild parsnip | biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip. |
| ~ tracheophyte, vascular plant | green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. mourning band, weed | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning. |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, mary jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed | street names for marijuana. |
| ~ cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana | the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect. |
| v. (change) | 4. weed | clear of weeds.; "weed the garden" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ stub | clear of weeds by uprooting them.; "stub a field" |
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