Chenopodium album
- noun
- /ˌkɛnəˈpoʊdiəm ˈælbəm/
- Specialized
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chenopodio blanco
- The leaves of Chenopodium album can be cooked and eaten like spinach.
Examples
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Many gardeners remove Chenopodium album from their vegetable patches to prevent overcrowding.
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Some herbalists value Chenopodium album for its nutritional properties.
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I found some Chenopodium album growing in my garden.
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Have you ever cooked with Chenopodium album?
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Many gardeners remove Chenopodium album from their vegetable patches to prevent overcrowding.
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The leaves of Chenopodium album can be cooked and eaten like spinach.
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Some herbalists value Chenopodium album for its nutritional properties.
Synonyms
A wild green plant with leaves you can eat like spinach
A common wild plant with leaves you can eat and cook like spinach
A wild leafy plant with edible leaves often used like spinach
Surface Forms
Morphology
Chenopodium + album
This is a Latin binomial: a learner who knows 'Chenopodium' as a plant genus would recognize it refers to a plant, and 'album' (Latin for 'white') could hint at a white form, so there is some compositional clue. However the full, common meaning ('a specific weedy plant known as lamb's quarters') and cultural usage are not directly derivable from the parts by a B1 learner, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Chenopodium album comes from old Greek and Latin words. The first part, Chenopodium, really means 'goose foot' because the leaves look like a goose's foot. The second part, album, means 'white' for the pale dust on the leaves, so the name helps you recognize this common leafy plant people cook like spinach.
