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weed vs tumbleweed

tumbleweed vs weed

weed and tumbleweed both are nouns.

weed is a verb but tumbleweed is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
weed Yes No Yes No
tumbleweed Yes No No No
As nouns, tumbleweed is a hyponym of weed; that is, tumbleweed is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than weed:
  • weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
  • tumbleweed: any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
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, 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, madnep, wild parsnip.
weed (noun) tumbleweed (noun)
street names for marijuana any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants bushy plant of western United States
prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
weed (verb) tumbleweed (verb)
clear of weeds
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