goosefoot

Calque of translingual Chenopodium, from Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn, “goose”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) + Latin -ium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

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goosefoot (plural goosefoots)

1. Any of many flowering plants, of the subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers.

• pigweed

• “goosefoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “goosefoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.