weedy
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lush, luxuriant, prosperous, rampant, rank
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Many of the park’s intriguing native plants and animals, however, are in peril, defenseless against alien species including weedy invasive plants and feral pigs. — National Geographic, "Everything to know about Hawaii Volcanoes National Park," 15 July 2019 Pursuit of his research often took him to weedy overgrown cemeteries in search of old tombstones related to his family, said his daughter, Ellen D. Burns of Ellicott City. — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, "John H. Ditto Jr., real estate lawyer and history buff, dies," 22 July 2019 The 6-acre trout pond has two walkable peninsulas that jut into the lake’s weedy waters. — Mare Czinar, azcentral, "Fun summer hikes in Arizona: These hidden little lakes attract wildlife, hikers and anglers," 5 July 2019 Turning urban gristle into beauty The dollars have transformed weedy hillsides, crumbling riverbanks, and old debris landfills into surprisingly beautiful landscapes. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Burning River legacy: Towpath Trail spurs rediscovery of Cuyahoga Valley, erasing east-west divide," 9 June 2019 Walleye are being caught in the weedy areas casting a jig-nightcrawler or drifting the weed edges with a spinner harness and crawler. — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, "If you aren’t catching walleye on Lake Erie, you aren’t trying: June 14 Fishing Report," 14 June 2019 Occasional graffiti or a weedy bush break the monotony of such barren shores. — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, "Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over," 25 Apr. 2019 The character's own journey in the movie, which includes a dazzling sequence in which his party is ensnared in hunting traps left in a weedy marsh, eventually takes on a sort of resigned calm. — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, "Lucrecia Martel fuses the mystical and the historical with bold adventure in 'Zama'," 20 Apr. 2018 The beautiful garden is torn up and goes bleak and weedy. — Constance Grady, Vox, "Crime novelist Tana French is at her creepy, thoughtful best with The Witch Elm," 12 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'weedy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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