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pigweed
(redirected from Pig weed)

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pigweed, name for several weedy plants, particularly the common pigweed or lamb's-quarters of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot goosefoot, common name for the genus Chenopodium, as well as for the goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae, a family of widely distributed shrubs and herbs that includes the beet , spinach , and mangel-wurzel.
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 family), the rough pigweed, or green amaranth amaranth (ăm`ərănth') [Gr.
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, of the related family Amaranthaceae (amaranth family), and the winged pigweed, a tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as
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. Pigweeds are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg'nōlēŏf`ətə)
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales.


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