lamb's-quarters

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lamb's-quarters - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lamb's-quarters \Lamb's-quar"ters\, n. (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
     .
  
     Note: It is sometimes collected from the wild and eaten as a
           vegetable
  
     Syn: lamb's quarters, pigweed, wild spinach, Chenopodium
          album.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

lamb's-quarters - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lamb's-quarters
      n 1: common weedy European plant introduced into North America;
           often used as a potherb [syn: lamb's-quarters, pigweed,
           wild spinach, Chenopodium album]