to grow like a weed

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• grow like a weed — chiefly US informal : to grow very quickly Their business is growing like a weed. Look at you! You re growing like a weed! • • • Main Entry: ↑weed …   Useful english dictionary

• grow like a weed — grow quickly …   English contemporary dictionary

• Weed control — is the botanical component of pest control, stopping weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants and livestock by physical and chemical methods. In order to reduce weed growth, many weed control… …   Wikipedia

• Weed — This article is about plants specifically called weeds. For other uses, see Weed (disambiguation). See also: Invasive species and Volunteer (botany) Contents …   Wikipedia

• weed — weed1 weedless, adj. weedlike, adj. /weed/, n. 1. a valueless plant growing wild, esp. one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop. 2. any undesirable or troublesome plant, esp. one that grows profusely… …   Universalium

• Weed Out! — Infobox Album | Name = Weed Out (Live at the Old Melbourne Hotel) Type = Live Artist = The Stems Released = 1997 Recorded = Genre = Alternative rock Length = Label = House Of Wax Records Producer = Reviews = Last album = Buds (1991) This album =… …   Wikipedia

• Red weed — The red weed (also referred to as the red creeper) is a fictional plant native to Mars in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It is this plant that supposedly gives Mars its dull red color. It is one of the several types of plants… …   Wikipedia

• flourish — v 1. grow, grow like a weed, increase, develop, wax; burgeon, mushroom, boom, spring up, burst forth; sprout, bud, germinate, pullulate; bloom, blossom, flower, bear fruit, fructify; mature, maturate, ripen; luxuriate, abound, superabound. 2. be… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• riot — n 1. brawl, broil, imbroglio, melee, fray, affray, fracas, free for all, donnybrook, scuffle, street fight, Inf. rumble, Inf. knock down drag out. 2. civil disorder or strife, anarchy, mob law, street fighting, fighting in the street; revolt,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Vavilovian mimicry — Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Vavilovian mimicry (also crop mimicry or weed mimicry[1][2]) is a form of mimicry in plants where a weed comes to share one or more cha …   Wikipedia

• Growing Up in the Universe — Cover of the DVD Written by Richard Dawkins Directed by Stuart McDonald Starring …   Wikipedia