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Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca.

The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album). Dr. Prior.

A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

m its resinous smell. Sir L. Hill. (b) A long, creeping, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium (L. clavatum); -- called also club moss. (c) A tree-shaped evergreen plant about eight inches in height, of the same genus (L. dendroideum) found in moist, dark woods in the northern part of the United States. Gray. -- Gro…

A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnæus. It is also found in Florida.

ries of about the size of cherries. -- Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot (Chenopodium Botrys), common about houses and along roadsides. -- Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa). -- Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely disper…

ame given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

Same as Lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

blossoms. -- Mexican tea (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).

A monopodium.

Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).

A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody. [Written also polypod.]

Any plant of the genus Polypodium.

The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.