Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Pigweed   Listen
Pigweed

noun
1.
Common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb.  Synonyms: Chenopodium album, lamb's-quarters, wild spinach.
2.
Leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China.  Synonym: Amaranthus hypochondriacus.
3.
Leaves collected from the wild.  Synonyms: lamb's-quarter, wild spinach.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Pigweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... broken glass sparkled as though they were laughing; and, from two spots in the dark brown plot which formed a semicircle around the cemetery, there projected, like teeth, two buildings the new yellow paint of which nevertheless made them look mean and petty amid the tangle of rubbish, pigweed, groundsel, ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... be ready punctually,' was the command issued by Amanda, as they went to their rooms, after a festive dinner of what Lavinia called 'earth-worms and cacti,' not being fond of stewed brains, baked eels, or thistles and pigweed ...
— Shawl-Straps - A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag • Louisa M. Alcott

... sweet clover; and yet persons who pass those dumps every day say that they can grow nothing in their own yard because the soil is so poor! Yet I venture that those same persons furnish most of the pigweed seed that I ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com