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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Just wait until he finds out about “tree”

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Any kind of twig that’s not a shrub?

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yes, this was a real educational technicality fuckup, it seemed sus but everyone was like “don’t you know it’s a weed”? - “No, no I do not. And you don’t even have a field to worry abut crop yields, it’s just a lawn & now there is a flower in it, wtf.”

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun fact: the name for a weed in my native language is literally “angry grass” :3

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    • MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Kraut is any green plant stuff, like the plant part of potatoes.

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      • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.

        I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Ogräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass.

        Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it’s getting the good treatment.

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      • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I love it, what language is that?

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      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Lithuanian :3

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.

    Weeds that are pretty might get more of a pass than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Humans are a weed.

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  • Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a perfectly good definition of the difference between flowers and weeds.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      weeds are plants with the capacity for spite

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, “weed” can be a legal definition. A lot of governments have a noxious weed list that either provides for consequences if you suffer that plant on your property, or just an excuse for the government to come on to your property to kill the weeds for you. For instance, Russian Olive is legally a “kill on sight” invasive plant in my area.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      noxious and invasive weeds.

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  • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    [with visibly bloodshot eyes] “Nah, man, I disagree with your definition there.”

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  • Carl@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast put it best. “A plant out of place” is a weed, like an insect out of place is a pest. It’s a definition that centers ecology and targets invasive species.

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