noun. Any of various often weedy plants of the genus Chenopodium, having small greenish flowers.

noun. A plant of some species of the genus Chenopodium: so called from the shape of the leaves.

noun. The formation of the facial nerve in spreading into a leash of nerves in three principal divisions after its exit from the stylomastoid foramen: translating the technical term pes anserinus

noun. A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

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

noun. any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers

"Beyond the marsh, well-drained slopes with gullies and cut banks offered protected crannies for forbs such as goosefoot, nettles, and mats of hairy-leaved, mouse-eared chickweed with small white flowers."

maple-leaved goosefoot  nettle-leaved goosefoot  sea-goosefoot  

Herb  herbaceous plant  

Jerusalem oak  Mexican tea  allgood  american wormseed  atriplex mexicana  

pigweed