weedy
weedy
Definition
weedy (-ē)
adjective weed′i·er, weed′i·est
- having weeds; full of weeds
- of or like a weed or weeds, as in rapid, rank growth
- lean, lanky, ungainly, etc.
weed′i·ness noun
weedy
Usage Examples
Preposition: in
- summer: It can be a bit weedy in the summer.
Modifies a noun
- relative: Very little is thus known about whether weedy relatives have benefited from the acquisition of crop genes.
- specie: Intermittent flooding will reduce the incidence of unwanted weedy species.
- rock: Put a scad or mackerel body in the bait cage & pop it down near some weedy rocks.
- field: We continued on searching all the weedy fields we could find.
- water: Remember when fishing weedy waters or where snags might be a problem, the heavier gage wire provides strength to land such quality fish.
- area: At low tide look for a shallow, sandy, weedy area.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: The top part of the canal is rather weedy, which slowed us down.
- quite: In these sections where the water runs faster and is quite weedy in the summer months, lie the haunts of very large barbel.
- very: Duncan, whose swim was very weedy, had the misfortune to lose seven good fish.
- too: When he arrived he discovered that swim was too weedy so walked the rest of the lake and found some baliffs to chat to.
- so: That was one of the main problems on the Road Lake, it was ever so weedy.
- little: Sound effects are good, but the Jackal sounds a little weedy.
Used with adjective complement
- get: It is however very handy when you sail on a venue that gets weedy in summer like mine.
- become: The East End is the most popular boating area, as the West End can become weedy in the summer months.
- leave: In drilled dwarf beans left weedy through to harvest yield losses can range from 0 to 90 % .
- look: The lake was looking very weedy, and for late June already very low.
- sound: And Ryo's keyboard melody that goes through the track always sounds horribly weedy live.
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