goosefoot

goosefoot

English

Chenopodium capitatum.

Etymology

Calque of Translingual Chenopodium, from Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn, “goose”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) + Latin -ium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

Noun

goosefoot (plural goosefoots)

1. Any of many flowering plants, of the subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers.

Synonyms

• pigweed

Translations

flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae

Bulgarian: кучешка лобода f (kučeška loboda) Chinese: Mandarin: 藜 (zh) (lí) Finnish: savikka (fi) German: Gänsefuß (de) m Irish: cos ghé f

Romanian: fragă-tătărească (ro) f Russian: марь (ru) f (marʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: прудник m, јурјевац m, пепељуга f, стратор m Latin: prudnik (sh) m, jurjevac (sh) m, pepeljuga (sh) f, strator m