Synonyms for weeds
weeds

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1. weeds, widow's weedsnoun

   a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

   Synonyms:
   widow's weeds

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1. weedsnoun

   Synonyms:
   mourning, symbol of sorrow

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1. List of paraphrases for "weeds":

   weed, herbs, thistles, grasses

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1. Niall Mottram:

   This targeted dispense technology has the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of pesticides and herbicides that we apply to crops today; potentially by up to 99 percent. It does this by selectively targeting only weeds and infestations in a whole field, so that healthy crop and soil doesn't have pesticide applied to it. Through that we can massively reduce both cost and environmental impact.

2. Scandinavian Proverb:

   Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

3. Joseph Dennison:

   There are a lot of trades that happen in baskets and people don't always dig through the weeds and find the companies that are growing organically.

4. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

   Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

5. Zygmunt Bauman:

   All (totalitarian) versions of society-as-garden define the parts of the social habitat as human weeds. Like all weeds, they must be segregated, contained, prevented from spreading, removed and kept outside the society boundaries; if all these means prove insufficient, they must be killed.