red goosefoot

Questions about red goosefoot

What does red goosefoot mean?

red goosefoot means "common Eurasian weed; naturalized in United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red goosefoot?

Close synonyms include French spinach, Chenopodium rubrum, sowbane, Chenopodium hybridum. 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 red goosefoot a common word?

red goosefoot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.