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alyssum	any of a group of weedy low-growing plants of the mustard family, having tiny white or yellow four-petaled flowers borne on branched stalks. [1/2 definitions]
chess²	any of a variety of weedy grasses, esp. cheat.
dandelion	a low-growing weedy plant with notched leaves and yellow flowers. [1/2 definitions]
dock⁴	any of various weedy plants that have broad leaves and long taproots and bear clusters of small greenish or reddish flowers.
goosefoot	any of various weedy plants that bear small green flowers.
motherwort	any of a variety of weedy plants of the mint family that bear clusters of small pink or purple flowers.
ramtil	a weedy composite annual, the seeds of which yield an oil used in India for cooking and in the making of soaps.
wild mustard	charlock or a similar weedy mustard.

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