Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAbounding with weeds. · Of, relating to or resembling weeds. · Consisting of weeds. · Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *weud Old English wēod Middle English weed English weed Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English weedy From weed + -y.
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