weedage

English

Etymology

weed +‎ -age

Noun

weedage (uncountable)

1. Weeds collectively.
   • 1853, Thomas Toke Lynch, Essays on some of the forms of Literature, page 29:

     Poetry has then its weedage plenteous and pestilent. Yet count not the thousand apparently inutilitarian charms and sweetnesses, as parts of this weedage: a wreath of roses has its own worth no less than a sheaf of corn.

   • 1981, Richard Redgrave, Samuel Redgrave, Ruthven Todd, A Century of British Painters, page 433:

     The sparkle and shimmer of foliage and weedage, in the fitful breeze that rolls away the clouds from the watery sun, when the shower and the sunshine chase each other over the land, have never been given with greater truth […]