Definition of "weedlike" [weedlike]

• Resembling a weed or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "The newcomer, vincristine, was a poisonous plant-alkaloid that came from the Madagascar periwinkle, a small, weedlike creeper with violet flowers and an entwined, coiled stem."
• "A false axiom with weedlike durability: the Phillips curve."
• "Ironically, some of them are even considered weedlike and are ripped out by the dozens."