Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various often weedy plants of the genus Chenopodium, having small greenish flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of some species of the genus Chenopodium: so called from the shape of the leaves.
- noun The formation of the facial nerve in spreading into a leash of nerves in three principal divisions after its exit from the stylomastoid foramen: translating the technical term pes anserinus
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
flowering plants , of the subfamilyChenopodioideae , having small greenish flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Beyond the marsh, well-drained slopes with gullies and cut banks offered protected crannies for forbs such as goosefoot, nettles, and mats of hairy-leaved, mouse-eared chickweed with small white flowers.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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Before the Death, they would have made a living from dropped corn, knotweed, and maygrass seeds; now they had to be thriving on goosefoot and other invaders.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Their places now grew grass and goosefoot, the lonesome soil hardened and rain cracked.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Before the Death, they would have made a living from dropped corn, knotweed, and maygrass seeds; now they had to be thriving on goosefoot and other invaders.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Their places now grew grass and goosefoot, the lonesome soil hardened and rain cracked.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Finds include asparagus, ratte and bintje potatoes and herbs such as angelica, goosefoot, cumin and marjoram.
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The goosefoot-shaped leaves of this abundant plant have long been used as a nourishing food during times of need.
Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010
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Lambsquarter is also known as wild spinach, goosefoot, pigweed, Good King Henry and fat hen.
Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010
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The people raised crops including sunflower, squash, goosefoot, maygrass, and other plants with oily or starchy seeds.
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It is a seed from the goosefoot plant and is an ideal food for all of us because it is a complete protein, and is especially useful for those on some restrictive diets as Quinoa flour can be used in gluten-free baking.
Quinoa Jennifer 2009
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