weed vs alligator grass

alligator grass vs weed

weed and alligator grass both are nouns.

weed is a verb but alligator grass is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
weed	Yes	No	Yes	No
alligator grass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alligator grass is a hyponym of weed; that is, alligator grass is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than weed:

weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
alligator grass: prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses

Other hyponyms of weed include Agrostemma githago, corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field, knawe, knawel, Scleranthus annuus, corn spurrey, corn spurry, Spergula arvensis, sand spurry, sea spurry, Spergularia rubra, carpetweed, Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata, alligator weed, Alternanthera philoxeroides, Barbarea vulgaris, rockcress, rocket cress, Sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket, Erysimum cheiranthoides, wormseed mustard, jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, runch, wild radish, wild rape, pennycress, ambrosia, bitterweed, ragweed, thistle, Barnaby's thistle, Centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle, Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, fleabane, horseweed, Erechtites hieracifolia, fireweed, Hieracium praealtum, king devil, yellow hawkweed, California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata, bastard feverfew, Parthenium hysterophorus, bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides, Hieracium aurantiacum, orange hawkweed, Pilosella aurantiaca, Senecio doublasii, threadleaf groundsel, benweed, ragweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort, groundsel, Senecio vulgaris, cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur, cockleburr, nettle, tumbleweed, madnep, wild parsnip.

weed (noun)	alligator grass (noun)
street names for marijuana	prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

weed (verb)	alligator grass (verb)
clear of weeds

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