Weed vs. Marijuana — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Weed and Marijuana
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Weed
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.
Marijuana
Cannabis, especially as smoked or consumed as a psychoactive (mind-altering) drug
Marijuana plants
The cops told us that he had been smoking marijuana
Weed
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.
Marijuana
The cannabis plant.
Weed
An aquatic plant or alga, especially seaweed.
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Marijuana
The dried flower clusters and leaves of this plant, smoked or ingested to induce euphoria or to treat the symptoms of certain medical conditions. Use of marijuana is illegal under federal law, but certain jurisdictions permit regulated use for medical or recreational purposes.
Weed
Something considered useless, detrimental, or worthless.
Marijuana
The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.
Weed
Tobacco.
Marijuana
The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.
Weed
A cigarette.
Marijuana
A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Weed
Marijuana.
Marijuana
The dried leaves or the female flowers of the hemp plant, which is smoked or chewed to obtain a euphoric effect. The flowers usually have a higher concentration of the active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol.
Weed
A token of mourning, as a black band worn on a man's hat or sleeve.
Marijuana
A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared
Weed
Weeds The black mourning clothes of a widow.
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
Weed
Often weeds(Archaic) An article of clothing; a garment.
Weed
To clear of weeds
Weeded the flowerbeds.
Weed
To remove (weeds). Often used with out
Weed out dandelions.
Weed
To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out
Weed out unqualified applicants.
Weed
To remove weeds.
Weed
(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
Weed
Underbrush; low shrubs.
Weed
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
Weed
Cannabis.
Weed
Tobacco.
Weed
A cigar.
Weed
(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
Weed
A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
Weed
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
Weed
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
Weed
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
He wore a weed on his hat.
Weed
(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
Weed
(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.
Weed
(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
Weed
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
I weeded my flower bed.
Weed
(figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
Weed
(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
Weed
Simple past tense and past participle of wee
Weed
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he worePut off.
Weed
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.
In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
Weed
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Weed
Underbrush; low shrubs.
One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.
A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.
Weed
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.
Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.
Weed
Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed
An animal unfit to breed from.
Weed
Tobacco, or a cigar.
Weed
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
Weed
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.
Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Weed
To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.
Weed
To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Weed
Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
Weed
Street names for marijuana
Weed
Clear of weeds;
Weed the garden
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