goosefoot

English

Chenopodium capitatum.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

Noun

goosefoot (plural goosefoots)

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

Synonyms

pigweed

Translations

flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae

Bulgarian: кучешка лобода f (kučeška loboda)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 藜 (zh) (lí)
Finnish: savikka (fi)
German: Gänsefuß (de) m
Irish: cos ghé f

Romanian: fragă-tătărească (ro) f
Russian: марь (ru) f (marʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прудник m, јурјевац m, пепељуга f, стратор m

Latin: prudnik (sh) m, jurjevac (sh) m, pepeljuga (sh) f, strator m

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