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GOOSEFOOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("goosefoot" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goosefoot"):
Chenopodium album; lamb's-quarters; pigweed; wild spinach (common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb)
American wormseed; Chenopodium ambrosioides; Mexican tea; Spanish tea; wormseed (rank-smelling tropical American pigweed)
allgood; Chenopodium bonus-henricus; fat hen; good-king-henry; wild spinach (European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb)
Atriplex mexicana; Chenopodium botrys; feather geranium; Jerusalem oak; Mexican tea (Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America)
Chenopodium capitatum; Indian paint; strawberry blite; strawberry pigweed (European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America)
Chenopodium glaucum; oak-leaved goosefoot; oakleaf goosefoot (annual European plant with spikes of greenish flowers and leaves that are white and hairy on the underside; common as a weed in North America)
Chenopodium hybridum; red goosefoot; sowbane (herb considered fatal to swine)
Chenopodium murale; nettle-leaved goosefoot; nettleleaf goosefoot (European annual with coarsely dentate leaves; widespread in United States and southern Canada)
Chenopodium rubrum; French spinach; red goosefoot (common Eurasian weed; naturalized in United States)
Chenopodium vulvaria; stinking goosefoot (European goosefoot with strong-scented foliage; adventive in eastern North America)
Holonyms ("goosefoot" is a member of...):
Chenopodium; genus Chenopodium (goosefoot; pigweed)
