Weed vs. Bush — What's the Difference?

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks.

A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length

A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one that grows where it is not wanted and often grows or spreads fast or takes the place of desired plants.

(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country

An aquatic plant or alga, especially seaweed.

A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur

Something considered useless, detrimental, or worthless.

A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.

Tobacco.

A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.

A cigarette.

Spread out into a thick clump

Marijuana.

A low shrub with many branches.

A token of mourning, as a black band worn on a man's hat or sleeve.

A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

Weeds The black mourning clothes of a widow.

Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

Often weeds(Archaic) An article of clothing; a garment.

Land remote from settlement

To clear of weeds

A shaggy mass, as of hair.

To remove (weeds). Often used with out

Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out

A fox's tail.

To remove weeds.

(Archaic) A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

(Obsolete) A tavern.

Underbrush; low shrubs.

To grow or branch out like a bush.

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

To extend in a bushy growth.

Cannabis.

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

Tobacco.

To furnish or line with a bushing.

A cigar.

(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate

(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.

(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.

(Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.

(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

(figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Simple past tense and past participle of wee

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Underbrush; low shrubs.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

To become bushy (often used with up).

An animal unfit to breed from.

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

Tobacco, or a cigar.

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; - commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Street names for marijuana

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Clear of weeds;

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

A large wilderness area

Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

Hair growing in the pubic area

Provide with a bushing

Not of the highest quality or sophistication