weed vs fleabane

fleabane vs weed

weed and fleabane both are nouns.

weed is a verb but fleabane is not a verb.

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

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

weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
fleabane: common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

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, 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)	fleabane (noun)
street names for marijuana	hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning	any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants	common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

weed (verb)	fleabane (verb)
clear of weeds

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