goosefoot

Calque of translingual Chenopodium, from Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn, “goose”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) + Latin -ium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

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goosefoot (plural goosefoots)

1. Any of many flowering plants, of the saltbush subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers, including spinach.
2. Any of species Syngonium podophyllum of plants cultivated as houseplants, native from Bolivia to Mexico, naturalized elsewhere.

• pigweed

• “goosefoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “goosefoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.