goosefoot family

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   includes spinach and beets

   SynonymsChenopodiaceaefamily Chenopodiaceae

   Broadercaryophylloid dicot family

   NarrowerBeta

   Part ofCaryophyllales

Questions about goosefoot family

What does goosefoot family mean?

goosefoot family means "includes spinach and beets".

What is another word for goosefoot family?

Close synonyms include Chenopodiaceae, family Chenopodiaceae. 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 goosefoot family a common word?

goosefoot family 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.