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🌱 Spreading easily 🌾 Full of weeds 🌿 Like cannabis
weediness

weediness

6.7
A plant's habit of spreading quickly and taking over other plants
  • noun
  • /ˈwiːdɪnəs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : invasividad
  • Invasive species are often characterized by their rapid weediness, overtaking native plants in no time.

Examples

  • The garden struggled with the weediness of invasive plants that choked out the flowers.

  • Therefore, because the assumption of reduced weediness in domesticated biofuels may be unsuitable when screening species introduced for biomass production purposes, this question was answered "no" in subsequent analyses.

    Academic text (2008)

  • A "yes" response favors acceptance (or reduced risk of invasion), under the assumption that domestication generally reduces the inherent weediness of wild types (Pheloung et al. 1999).

    Academic text (2008)

  • All major agronomic crops (corn, soybean, wheat, rice) require environmental subsidization through cultivation (i.e., water, nutrients), without which they would not survive, thereby mitigating weediness.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Farmers often take measures to control the weediness of crops in order to maintain healthy yields.

Synonyms

overgrowth
vsweediness
2 5.2

A thick unwanted growth of plants covering a place

is a species' tendency to spread rapidly and compete aggressively
weedy appearance
vsweediness
6.2

An untidy look caused by many plants growing out of control

is a species' tendency to spread rapidly and outcompete nearby plants

How Invasive

invasiveness
  • Specialized
1 7.8
weediness
  • Specialized
6.7

Surface Forms

weediness singular
weedinesses plural

Morphology

weediness = weedy (transparent) = weed + iness

The word 'weediness' is transparently derived from 'weedy' by adding the suffix '-ness' to form a noun indicating the quality or state.

Etymology

Weediness comes from the simple word weed, which means a 'wild plant' that grows where people do not want it. So weediness is the quality of spreading and taking over like a weed.