different between weeds vs knapweed

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /wi?dz/
• Rhymes: -i?dz

Etymology 1

Inflected form of weed.

Noun

weeds

1. plural of weed

Verb

weeds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weed

Etymology 2

From Old English w?d, w?de, from Proto-Germanic *w?diz (“piece of cloth, garment”).

Noun

weeds pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) Clothes.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, v 3

     Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

   • 1886, Aeschylus, Choephori, translated by Anna Swanwick, lines 10–12

     What sight is this? What company of women
     Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds
     Conspicuous?

Usage notes

Fossil word, found in phrase widow's weeds.

Derived terms

• widow's weeds

Anagrams

• Swede, sewed, swede

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næpwi?d/

Etymology

Alteration of knopweed.

Noun

knapweed (countable and uncountable, plural knapweeds)

1. Any of various common weeds of the genus Centaurea
   1. especially Centaurea nigra.

Derived terms

• bighead knapweed (Centaurea macrocephala)
• black knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea)
• common knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)
• giant knapweed (Centaurea macrocephala)
• great knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
• greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
• Jersey knapweed (Centaurea paniculata)
• lesser knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• Russian knapweed (Rhaponticum repens)
• singleflower knapweed (Centaurea uniflora)
• slender knapweed (Centaurea spp.)
• spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa)
• squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata ssp. squarrosa)
• tumble knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)
• white knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)

Synonyms

• clubweed

Translations

References

• knapweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• knapweed at OneLook Dictionary Search