dill weed
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- noun
- /dɪl wiːd/
:
eneldo
- All right, dill weed.
- 1 teaspoon of dill weed
- 1 tablespoon of dill weed
- fresh dill weed
Examples
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With his good hand, he picks up the chopping board—the sprig of dill weed on it as well as the knife—and carefully slides it all into the garbage can.
Fiction book (1999) -
Dill weed.
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Now, as he chops dill weed beside Paolo, Guillaume thinks about having to call each of the men and women of his past to tell them that his love has possibly meant their death.
Fiction book (1999) -
Picard waits for a moment, then goes to the shelf, grabs the dill weed, and hands it to Kirk. # PICARD #
Fiction book (1994) -
You can enhance the flavor of your dish by adding dill weed to the sauce.
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The chef sprinkled fresh dill weed on top of the salmon before serving.
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I like to use dill weed when making potato salad for extra taste.
Synonyms
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1.0
A scented herb with fine feathery leaves used to flavor food
Leaves from the dill plant that you use to add flavor when cooking
A herb with feathery leaves and seeds used in cooking, called dill
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'dill' (the herb) combined with 'weed' (a plant); the compound simply names the plant/leaf used for seasoning. As a straightforward noun+noun composition with literal reference to the herb, a B1 learner who knows both words would reasonably infer the intended meaning, despite 'weed' occasionally carrying a slight negative nuance.
Etymology
Dill weed comes from the plant's soft, feathery leaves. Long ago, 'weed' was a common word for a small 'herb' or plant, so dill weed simply means the dill leaves used as a 'seasoning' in cooking.