weed
noun
a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
unweeded
-
a word derived from
weed.
Example Sentences
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And yet from amid this excess, as from a rank and unweeded garden, were springing into flower many seeds of modern intellectual enfranchisement, as the achievements of Bruno and his contemporaries witness.
From Porzia by Cale Young Rice
The green-finch—that beautiful-winged Mrs Gummidge among birds—is also abundant, and slips down nervously every now and then among the groundsel in the unweeded garden.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
When I think on that beach at Monterey—the silent streets, the walled, unweeded gardens—a wistful Saturday-afternoon feeling comes over me.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard
O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Ah fie! 't is an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
