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Meanings of pigweed in English

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Common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb.

        Leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China.

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              Examples for "lamb's-quarters"
              Examples for "lamb's-quarters"
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              Cooked with pork-fat and lamb's-quarters, an herb used to make greens taste more savory, these leaves, and the first tender shoots make poke salad.
              The new yorker
              1
              Women with wood on their heads and marog ( wild spinach) in their hip pockets.
              The South African
              2
              We marvelled at the birds, we picked the wild spinach and fennel and imagined the Lusitania's drift to calamity a few miles offshore.
              The Irish Times
              1
              We call it lamb's-quarter, for the lamb doth eat it by choice.
              Woodland Tales
              Usage of pigweed in English
              1
              Raw they ate thistle tops, pigweed, and crowfoot, with great relish.
              The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
              2
              Pull up all the beets and leave the pigweed, hey?
              St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, ...
              3
              The grass waved to their stirrups, and the pigweed stood rank up to the very door.
              North of Fifty-Three
              4
              Even pigweed can be a delicacy.
              The new yorker
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              Should I get more pigweed seeds?
              The Valley of Horses
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              Boys aren't like pigweed, you know.
              Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
              7
              Yet I venture that those same persons furnish most of the pigweed seed that I use on my garden.
              Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
              8
              On the low land we observed salt herbs, and pigweed, the proper name of which, I believe, is portulac.
              Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria / In searc...
              9
              Pretty good, Aunt Miranda; only I wish flowers would ever come up as thick as this pigweed and plantain and sorrel.
              New Chronicles of Rebecca
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              Even my cultivated gardens have great annual weeds that I harvest young and mix in salads, including lamb's quarters, chickweed, and pigweed.
              Vegetable gardening for dummies
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              The ordinary pigweed (Fig.
              Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
              12
              After a second rinsing in the cold stream, Iza crushed the pigweed root together with its leaves and lathered it into her hair.
              The Clan of the Cave Bear
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              Say, we have a corn plant, cotton, beet, turnip, carrot, onion, potato, grass, geranium, marigold, pigweed, thistle, or other farm or garden plants.
              The First Book of Farming
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              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.
              The Clan of the Cave Bear
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              Pulling up a stalk of pigweed, she crushed the leaves and roots in her hand, wet the mixture, and added a bit of sand.
              The Valley of Horses
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              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.
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