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weired

weired adjective: having a weir.

Adjective

weired (not comparable)

  1. Having a weir.
    • White shrimp emigrated significantly sooner from the unweired pond than from the weired pond in most experiments, but whether the weir actually delayed emigration was unclear.1996, E. Eric Knudsen et al., “Juvenile White Shrimp Growth, Mortality, and Emigration in Weired and Unweired Louisiana Marsh Ponds”, in North American Journal of Fisheries Management, volume 16...

Origin of weired

From weir + -ed.

Questions about weired

What does weired mean?
Weired means having a weir.
What part of speech is weired?
Weired is an adjective.

Words near weired in the dictionary

  1. weirds out
  2. weirdscape
  3. weirdscapes
  4. weirdsome
  5. weirdy
  6. weired
  7. Weirich
  8. Weiriches
  9. Weirick
  10. Weiricks
  11. weirless

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