Lamb's-quarters

Lamb's-quar´ters

n.

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(Bot.) A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family, introduced into N. America, and sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

lamb's-quarters - common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb Chenopodium album, pigweed, wild spinach lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach - leaves collected from the wild wild spinach - leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach goosefoot - any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers