weed vs cat's-ear

cat's-ear vs weed

weed and cat's-ear both are nouns.

weed is a verb but cat's-ear is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
weed	Yes	No	Yes	No
cat's-ear	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cat's-ear is a hyponym of weed; that is, cat's-ear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than weed:

weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
cat's-ear: European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears

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, 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, 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)	cat's-ear (noun)
street names for marijuana	European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning	any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

weed (verb)	cat's-ear (verb)
clear of weeds

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