DANEWEEDS Synonyms

• the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

• the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

• all the plant life in a particular region or period

• the process of growth in plants

• an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

• inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

• a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

• any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

• tangled mass of prickly plants

• a thorny stem or twig

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries

• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

• any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)

• sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• buildings for carrying on industrial labor

• (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

• an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

• something planted secretly for discovery by another

• put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground

• fix or set securely or deeply

• set up or lay the groundwork for

• place into a river

• place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive

• put firmly in the mind

• any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves