onkruid

Definitions of onkruid
  1. noun
    weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
  2. noun
    any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
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    antonyms:
    kweekplant
    plants that are grown for their produce
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    bolderik
    European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
    distel
    any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
    ossentong, ossetong
    widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
    brandnetel
    any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
    wegdistel
    biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America
    type of:
    vaatplant
    green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
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