AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE
WEEDS, NOXIOUS PLANTS OR INVASIVE PLANTS
Measurements related to 1) A plant growing out of place 2) more popularly, an herbaceous plant which takes possession of fallow fields or finds its way into lawns or planted fields, crowding the vegetation there and robbing it of moisture and nutrients. 3) A plant whose usefulness is not recognized or which is undesirable because of odor, spines, prickles, or poisonous characteristics. 4) Any plant that harbors insects, fungi, or viruses that may spread to nearby crop plants.