Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Aristolochia rotunda species noshow=1), the smearwort (rfv-sense). 2 (context UK English) ''Chenopodium album'', the (vern white goosefoot pedia=1). 3 (context UK English) Other related species, such as Good King Henry, (taxlink Blitum bonus-henricus species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb [syn: good-king-henry, allgood, wild spinach, Chenopodium bonus-henricus]
Wikipedia
Fat hen or fat-hen may refer to:
- Hen and chicks, common name for a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa
- Fat-hen, common name in Britain for Chenopodium album, a fast-growing weedy annual plant that is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, where it is referred to in Hindi as "Bathua".
- Atriplex prostrata
- Fette Henne, or "fat hen", nickname for the portly eagle of the Coat of arms of Germany that used to decorate the chamber of the Bundestag in Bonn, Germany. Also shows on certain German Euro coins
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, artwork in the Britzer Garten.
Usage examples of "fat hen".
That very morning, before starting in about it, Pearl had run out in the yard and grabbed up a fat hen that he wasn't even too sure was their hen.
She told me to ask also for fat hen and something for a festering wound.
Whatever the reason, a fat hen walked out from among the pine trees and stood in the path, staring at him from beady black eyes.
Such a comical sight he was, prancing around like a fat hen covered with her own broken eggs!
As a grian, Buckwheat is chiefly cultivated in England to supply food for pheasants and to feed poultry, which devour the seeds with avidity and thrive on it - hence one of its local names: Fat Hen.
She half stood, hands clenched in fists, leaning over the table like a fat hen.
Somewhere north of Boston, near the water front, they got out and the man led Jason Lynn to an old house squatting like a fat hen near a row of docks.