Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes spinach, beets, and the goosefoots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the order Chenopodiaceæ.
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- noun Any member of the family
Chenopodioideae ; thegoosefoots
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Samphire, a sparse low chenopod shrubland, occurs on tidal salt flats, typically of fine clay, between mangroves and the supratidal fringe.
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To the south the region can be distinguished from the chenopod shrublands and grasslands of the Tirari-Stuart Stony Desert.
Simpson desert 2008
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The ecoregion is a transition between wetter sclerophyll woodlands to the east and south, and the arid chenopod shrublands and woodlands to the north.
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Away from the water's edge understories include Acacia, Eremophila, and Melaleuca spp., with chenopod shrubs towards the drier margins.
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The habitat types within these reserves range from eucalypt woodland, chenopod shrubland, bluebush, lancewood, gidgee, and grasslands to Acacia woodlands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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This region lies between the higher rainfall sclerophyll woodlands to the east and south, and the arid chenopod woodlands and shrublands north of the Murray and Darling Rivers.
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Stony areas of outwash from these mesas support chenopod scrublands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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Along with sumpweed, chenopod, and sunflower, squash found in samples throughout the east proved older than the Bat Cave corn.
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Buckwheat (_úgal_, _trúmba_, _dráwí_), amaranth (_chauláí_, _ganhár_, _sariára_), and a tall chenopod (_bathu_) are grown in the mountain zone.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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Quinoa, domesticated thousands of years ago on Bolivia's arid high mountain plains and now often misrepresented as a grain, is actually a chenopod, related to species like beets and spinach.
NYT > Home Page By SIMON ROMERO 2011
fbharjo commented on the word chenopod
geesefeet and/or goosefoot?
He neat fleet geese? (How now brown cow) ?!
July 30, 2009