chenopodium album

1. 1.

   common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb

   Synonymslamb's-quarterspigweedwild spinach

   Broadergoosefoot

   Partslamb's-quarterwild spinach

Questions about chenopodium album

What does chenopodium album mean?

chenopodium album means "common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb".

What is another word for chenopodium album?

Close synonyms include lamb's-quarters, pigweed, wild spinach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chenopodium album a common word?

chenopodium album is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.