weedlike

Not to say that its offerings are weedlike: some blossom, others wither.

Many of these plants with weedlike tendencies already have a longstanding reputation as thugs.

And how could I possibly mulch these rose beds covered with weedlike alyssum?

Thick, pliant, the weedlike strands had the clutch of living tentacles.

The researchers found that the weedlike plant grew much faster under CO2 conditions similar to those projected for the middle of the century.

It is a gangly weedlike perennial topping two meters in maximum height.

He waved a weedlike arm through the air, miming the throwing motion, over and over.

Now, all across the southwest and east, rows of weedlike greenery have thrust through the mud and dirt.

This is a weedlike perennial herb growing mainly erect to heights between 20 centimeters and one meter.

Hc could not afford that, for he would then soon be spending all his time defeating such weedlike pretenders in thc circle.

Locals gather and eat a nonpoisonous variety of nightshade, a weedlike plant abundant in the soggy soil since the storm.

Trouble is, the bold facades are often hidden behind the storefronts that have appeared weedlike at their foundations and curled up across their stone features.

It is thought to be a ruderal species, producing many tiny seeds that spread about and sprout up in disturbed habitat in a weedlike manner.

There were no trees here on the other side, nothing but a gradual grade down to a flat meadow with no cover other than tall weedlike plants.

Honey made from Brazilian pepper, a weedlike tree found in Florida, is dark and syrupy and is sold directly to industrial bakers.

Some are bare patches of dirt, others are scraggly spreads of ragged, weedlike vegetation, the horticultural version of a grunge rocker's face.

The camouflage is improved by the presence of small weedlike whisker lobes surrounding the wobbegong's jaw, which help to camouflage it and act as sensory barbs.

But I do wonder at the paradox of even the most rational of us being drawn to these bottles with pictures of ugly tubers and weedlike plants on them.

This is an erect perennial herb forming patches of herbage 20 centimeters high to sprawling stands of weedlike erect stems exceeding a meter in height.

This plant is variable in appearance, taking the form of a weedlike perennial herb forming low clumps to a sprawling subshrub growing erect to heights exceeding one meter.

The result is "The Tax Inspector," a dark, ferociously comic novel that chronicles the strange doings of the Catchprices, a psychologically inbred clan with an alarming, weedlike vigor.

As an example of the potential of "the gene bank of nature," he passed around a pungent sample of Lake Placid mint, once called scrub mint for its weedlike appearance.

Today it overflows with rapeseed, a tall, gnarled weedlike plant bursting with coarse yellow flowers that has become a new manna for European farmers: rapeseed can be turned into biofuel.

The researchers said the occurrence of fertile, weedlike plants carrying herbicide tolerance after just two generations of hybridization suggested a rapid spread of genes from oilseed rape to its weedy cousins.

Even some ardent conservationists acknowledge that the diversity of life on Earth cannot be fully sustained as human populations expand, use more resources, nudge the climate and move weedlike pests and predators from place to place.