different between glabrous vs chaffweed

English

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”) +? -ous.

glabrous (comparative more glabrous, superlative most glabrous)

Smooth, hairless; bald.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 143:
  The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.

chaff +? weed

chaffweed (plural chaffweeds)

A low glabrous weedy branching herb (Centunculus minimus) of the family Primulaceae, having short dry chafflike leaves.