weedy
a. 尽是杂草的, 似杂草的, 瘦弱的, 蔓生的
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1.
Abounding with weeds.
weedy grounds
a weedy garden
weedy corn
1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27, Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not […]
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2.
Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
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3.
Consisting of weeds.
1917, James Joyce, “Flood” in Poetry, Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73, A waste of waters ruthlessly Sways and uplifts its weedy mane, Where brooding day stares down upon the sea In dull disdain.
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Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
生物 植物学a weedy species
a weedy vine
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Small and weak.
比喻a weedy lad
1924, Edith Wharton, The Spark (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in Old New York, New York: 1981, p. 146, Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount […]
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Lacking power or effectiveness.
爱尔兰 英国 比喻 非正式a weedy excuse
a weedy attempt
a weedy motor
2016, Orla Kiely, quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” Irish Independent, 3 April, 2016, We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or weedy.
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From weed + -y.
来源：wiktionary