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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
overgrown \overgrown\ adjective
1. covered with growing plants. [WordNet 1.5]
2. abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms: {wooded (vs. unwooded)}; {weedy}] [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weedy \Weed"y\, adjective Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. --Dickens.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weedy \Weed"y\, adjective [Compar. {Weedier}; superl. {Weediest}.]
1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. ''Weedy trophies.'' --Shak.
2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weedy
adjective
1: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: {weedless}]
2: having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: {scraggy}, {scrawny}, {skinny}, {underweight}] [also: {weediest}, {weedier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "weedy": botanic, bulbous, cereal, dense, exuberant, farinaceous, flourishing, fruitlike, fruity, gross, heavy, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, impenetrable, jungled, jungly, leguminose, leguminous, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, plantlike, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rank, rhizoid, riotous, rootlike, thick, tuberous, unweeded, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weed-choked, weed-ridden
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