"garments" (now surviving, if at all, in widow's weeds), plural of archaic weed, from Old English w?d, w?de "robe, dress, apparel, garment, clothing," from Proto-Germanic *wedo (cognates: Old Saxon wadi, Old Frisian wede "garment," Old Norse vae "cloth, texture," Old High German wat "garment"), probably from PIE *wedh-, extended form of root *au- (3) "to weave." Archaic since early 19c.
例文
1. With repeated applications of weedkiller,the weeds were overcome.
除草剤の繰り返し投与により、雑草は完全に根絶された。
2.We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds .
私たちは急いで前に進み、野草の生い茂った庭に来ました。
3. Weeds are an index to the character of the soil.