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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chenopodium \Chenopodium\ n. a genus of plants comprising the goosefoots and including the pigweed.
Syn: genus Chenopodium.
Wikipedia
Chenopodium is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classification systems, notably the widely used Cronquist system, separate it and its relatives as Chenopodiaceae, but this leaves the rest of the Amaranthaceae polyphyletic. However, among the Amaranthaceae, the genus Chenopodium is the namesake member of the subfamily Chenopodioideae.
In Australia, the larger Chenopodium species are among the plants called "bluebushes". Chualar in California is named after a Native American term for a goosefoot abundant in the region, probably the California goosefoot (Blitum californicum).
Usage examples of "chenopodium".
Again, with Chenopodium album (Chenopodieae), the upper young leaves of some seedlings, about 4 inches in height, were horizontal or subhorizontal during the day, and at 10 P.
For some years Eucalyptus-chloroform was employed as one of the remedies in the tropics for hookworm, but it has now been almost universally abandoned as an inefficient anthelmintic, Chenopodium Oil having become the recognized remedy.