Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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. - noun The green amaranth, Amarantus retroflexus, a common weed around sties and barn-yards.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name of several annual weeds. See
goosefoot , andlamb's-quarters .
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- noun Any of various
weedy plants sometimes used aspig fodder :Amaranthus , Chenopodium album, andPortulaca .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun leaves collected from the wild
- noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
- noun leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
Etymologies
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Examples
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Something appropriate, following the example of Amaranth Advisors LLC, the collapsed hedge fund (named after the herb also known as pigweed).
unknown title 2009
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Speakers at the conference talked about unusual or exotic crops, such as amaranth (also known as pigweed), kenaf (related to hemp or jute), camelina (known as wild flax), pennycress
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A. retroflexus ( "pigweed") is one of the world's worst weeds.
2 The Plants 1984
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Amaranths are sometimes thought fit only for pigs (hence the common name "pigweed" for one despised American species) and worthy of picking only when one is driven by poverty.
1 Introduction 1984
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The words 'pigweed' and 'cheap' don't hold hands, right now.
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Mr. Anderson, the farmer, is wrestling with a particularly tenacious species of glyphosate-resistant pest called Palmer amaranth, or pigweed, whose resistant form began seriously infesting farms in western Tennessee only last year.
Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers | Impact Lab 2010
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For a stint, he was "in the weeds" -- as his ever-changing world of taste laid in the wild -- little-known leaves, weeds, and flowers like Queen Anne's lace, chicory root, and pigweed -- more poetically called lamb's quarters.
Rozanne Gold: Chopra and Vongerichten Talk Food Rozanne Gold 2011
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For a stint, he was "in the weeds" -- as his ever-changing world of taste laid in the wild -- little-known leaves, weeds, and flowers like Queen Anne's lace, chicory root, and pigweed -- more poetically called lamb's quarters.
Rozanne Gold: Chopra and Vongerichten Talk Food Rozanne Gold 2011
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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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A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in Maine.
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project Turns Refugees Into Farmers 2010
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