Meanings of pigweed in English

Raw they ate thistle tops, pigweed, and crowfoot, with great relish.

Pull up all the beets and leave the pigweed, hey?

The grass waved to their stirrups, and the pigweed stood rank up to the very door.

Even pigweed can be a delicacy.

Should I get more pigweed seeds?

Boys aren't like pigweed, you know.

Yet I venture that those same persons furnish most of the pigweed seed that I use on my garden.

On the low land we observed salt herbs, and pigweed, the proper name of which, I believe, is portulac.

Pretty good, Aunt Miranda; only I wish flowers would ever come up as thick as this pigweed and plantain and sorrel.

Even my cultivated gardens have great annual weeds that I harvest young and mix in salads, including lamb's quarters, chickweed, and pigweed.

The ordinary pigweed (Fig.

After a second rinsing in the cold stream, Iza crushed the pigweed root together with its leaves and lathered it into her hair.

Say, we have a corn plant, cotton, beet, turnip, carrot, onion, potato, grass, geranium, marigold, pigweed, thistle, or other farm or garden plants.

Iza dug up the red-rooted pigweed and headed for a marshy area beside sluggish backwater and found scouring-rush horsetail ferns and, farther upstream, soaproot.

Pulling up a stalk of pigweed, she crushed the leaves and roots in her hand, wet the mixture, and added a bit of sand.

Compared to pigweed that can grow three inches each day in soybean fields, Roundup-resistant lawn weeds would be a nuisance rather than an economic threat.