weedy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++weed·y /ˈwiːdi/ adjective informal 1. DLGfull of unwanted wild plants 杂草丛生的2. British EnglishWEAK physically weak or having a weak character 瘦弱的;懦弱的
Examples from the Corpus
weedy• Mouse got his nickname because he was small and weedy.• Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied, he was short and physically weedy.• Her weedy children would scamper up to practice karate in the clearing of his property.• I went back and pulled into the weedy drive.• Little weedy feller, looks as though he's only got one in him and that one's holding him together.• a weedy lawn• At dawn, on a weedy Michigan lake, ten thousand mallards fidget.• Away to the left, axes and saws were at work, weedy saplings falling.• Yet, human-made industry is a weedy thing that threatens to overcome the natural sphere that ultimately supports it.• What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.• a weedy young manweed·y adjectiveChineseSyllable
wild Corpus unwanted plants full of
weedy
weed‧y /ˈwiːdi/
adjective informal
1. full of unwanted wild plants
2. British English physically weak or having a weak character
weed‧y /ˈwiːdi/
adjective informal1. full of unwanted wild plants
2. British English physically weak or having a weak character