Search the Dictionary

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

r bright red berries 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…

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

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

A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.

h (Dict. econ. Plants). Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray.

A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.

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

A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. -- New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.

A small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of goosefoot. Gray.