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Meanings of pigweed in inglês
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.
Synonyms
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.
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Women with wood on their heads and marog ( wild spinach) in their hip pockets.
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We marvelled at the birds, we picked the wild spinach and fennel and imagined the Lusitania's drift to calamity a few miles offshore.
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We call it lamb's-quarter, for the lamb doth eat it by choice.
Usage of pigweed in inglês
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Raw they ate thistle tops, pigweed, and crowfoot, with great relish.
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Pull up all the beets and leave the pigweed, hey?
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The grass waved to their stirrups, and the pigweed stood rank up to the very door.
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Even pigweed can be a delicacy.
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Should I get more pigweed seeds?
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Boys aren't like pigweed, you know.
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Yet I venture that those same persons furnish most of the pigweed seed that I use on my garden.
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On the low land we observed salt herbs, and pigweed, the proper name of which, I believe, is portulac.
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Pretty good, Aunt Miranda; only I wish flowers would ever come up as thick as this pigweed and plantain and sorrel.
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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.
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The ordinary pigweed (Fig.
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After a second rinsing in the cold stream, Iza crushed the pigweed root together with its leaves and lathered it into her hair.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Pigweed through the time