weed vs vascular plant

weed and vascular plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
weed	Yes	No	Yes	No
vascular plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vascular plant is a hypernym of weed; that is, vascular plant is a word with a broader meaning than weed:

weed: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
vascular plant: green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms

Other hypernyms of weed include tracheophyte.

weed (noun)	vascular plant (noun)
street names for marijuana	green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
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)	vascular plant (verb)
clear of weeds