Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The maple-leaved goose-foot, Chenopodium hybridum, regarded as fatal to swine. Also called
hog's-bane .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The red goosefoot (
Chenopodium rubrum ), -- said to be fatal to swine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plant , the red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun herb considered fatal to swine
Etymologies
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sow + bane, as it was believed to be fatal to swine.
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