Another word for weedy | Synonyms for weedy

Another word for weedy

adjective

Having little flesh or fat on the body:

angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean², meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat

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Mallow (Malva) - Stout and sometimes showy perennial and half-shrubby plants, of which there are few pretty garden plants, the majority being coarse and weedy.
You may want to remove them, since if they sprout they produce weedy plants that aren't useful for growing vegetables.
French Honey-suckle (Hedysarum) - Plants of the Pea order, mostly weedy, only a few perennials being ornamental.
Children should be prevented from playing in weedy, vacant lots and other places where snakes may live.
A large family, varying much in character, often weedy, but of easy culture in ordinary soil.

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