“So throw out the weedkiller and invite some indigenous plants into your garden plot.”
“The council will use an organic weedkiller to get rid of the ragwort, which won't harm other wildlife.”
“The weeds and rampant vegetation seem to be dying off, as if the owner has run amok with a weedkiller can a few years too late.”
weed
(countable, Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
“Farms use chemical fertilizers, hybrid seeds and artificial insemination and weedicides.”
“Lamenting that environmental pollution had increased manifold, he said that farmers there were still using some of the weedicides that were banned in other countries.”
“Agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, weedicides, and pesticides are applied to agricultural fields for increasing crop productivity.”