NOUN
- leaves collected from the wild
- leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
- common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
How To Use pigweed In A Sentence
- Several common weeds, including pigweed, lamb's quarters, and kochia, have been reported to be hosts for the pathogen.
- Something appropriate, following the example of Amaranth Advisors LLC, the collapsed hedge fund (named after the herb also known as pigweed). Undefined
- Lambsquarter is also known as wild spinach, goosefoot, pigweed, Good King Henry and fat hen. Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO)
- Mr. Anderson, the farmer, is wrestling with a particularly tenacious species of glyphosate-resistant pest called Palmer amaranth, or pigweed, whose resistant form began seriously infesting farms in western Tennessee only last year. Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers | Impact Lab
- Amaranths are sometimes thought fit only for pigs (hence the common name "pigweed" for one despised American species) and worthy of picking only when one is driven by poverty. 1 Introduction
- A certain variety of round, hard starchy roots that took well to long cooking came out first, followed by baskets of a mixture of bone marrow, blue bearberries, and a variety of cracked and ground seeds -- pigweed, a mixture of grains, and oily pignon seeds. The Mammoth Hunters
- At 4.15 came south-west and by south one and a half miles over level country covered with roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and young grass, and wooded with box and western-wood acacia to water, and encamped. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
- Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album, also called fat hen, goosefoot, or pigweed) are a. member of the same family as chard and beets.
- I appreciate the subtle flavour of a spanakopita made with pigweed (aka lamb's quarters or wild spinach).
- Speakers at the conference talked about unusual or exotic crops, such as amaranth (also known as pigweed), kenaf (related to hemp or jute), camelina (known as wild flax), pennycress The Memphis Daily News