weed vs ambrosia

ambrosia vs weed

weed and ambrosia both are nouns.

weed is a verb but ambrosia is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
weed	Yes	No	Yes	No
ambrosia	Yes	No	No	No

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

weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
ambrosia: any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma

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 grass, 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, 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)	ambrosia (noun)
street names for marijuana	(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning	fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants	any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
	a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae

weed (verb)	ambrosia (verb)
clear of weeds

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