Pigweed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See goosefoot.
  • n. See amaranth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder: Amaranthus, Chenopodium album, and Portulaca.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A name of several annual weeds. See goosefoot, and lamb's-quarters.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant, one of the goosefoots, Chenopodium album, also called lamb's-quarters and baconweed. It is sometimes used as a pot-herb. The name extends more or less to other species of the genus.
  • n. The green amaranth, Amarantus retroflexus, a common weed around sties and barn-yards.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. leaves collected from the wild
  • n. common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
  • n. leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    leafy vegetable    greens    green    goosefoot    amaranth   
    Cross Reference
    winged pigweed   
    Variant
    goosefoot    lamb's-quarters   
     
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