GOOSEFOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goosefoot mean? 

• GOOSEFOOT (noun)
  The noun GOOSEFOOT has 1 sense:

1. any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers

  Familiarity information: GOOSEFOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOSEFOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)