goosefoot

English

Chenopodium capitatum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• pigweed

Derived terms

• American goosefoot (Dysphania ambrosioides)
• California goosefoot (Blitum californicum, syn. Chenopodium californicum)
• clammy goosefoot (Dysphania pumilio)
• coastal goosefoot (Oxybasis glauca)
• coastblite goosefoot (Oxybasis rubra)
• cutleaf goosefoot (Dysphania multifida)
• desert goosefoot (Chenopodium pratericola)
• fetid goosefoot (Dysphania incisa)
• fig-leaved goosefoot (Chenopodium ficifolium)
• Fremont's goosefoot (Chenopodium fremontii)
• frosted goosefoot (Chenopodium desertorum)
• giant goosefoot (Chenopodium giganteum)
• goosefoot groundling moth (Scrobipalpa atriplicella
• goosefoot leafminer moth (Chrysoesthia drurella)
• goosefoot maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
• goosefoot moonpod (Acleisanthes chenopodioides)
• goosefoot owlet (Scythris limbella)
• goosefoot pug (Eupithecia sinuosaria)
• goosefoot sea star (Anseropoda placenta)
• goosefoot violet (Viola purpurea)
• goosefoot yellow violet (Viola pinetorum)
• grey goosefoot (Chenopodium opulifolium)
• Hawaiian goosefoot (Chenopodium oahuense)
• Jerusalem oak goosefoot (Dysphania botrys, syn. Chenopodium botrys)
• keeled goosefoot (Dysphania carinata)
• lambsquarters goosefoot (Chenopodium album)
• leafy goosefoot (Blitum virgatum)
• low goosefoot (Oxybasis chenopodioides)
• many-seed goosefoot, many-seeded (Lipandra polysperma)
• maple-leaved goosefoot (Chenopoiastrum simplex, C. hybridum)
• mealy goosefoot (Chenopodium incanum)
• Mercury goosefoot (Aristolochia rotunda)
• narrowleaf goosefoot (Chenopodium leptophyllum)
• nettle-leaved goosefoot (Chenopodiastrum murale)
• nitre goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum)
• oakleaf goosefoot, oak-leaved goosefoot (Chenopodium glaucum)
• perennial goosefoot (Blitum bonus-henricus, syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus)
• pitseed goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri)
• purple-leafed goosefoot
• red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum)
• sticky goosefoot (Dysphania botrys, syn. Chenopodium botrys)
• stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium vulvaria)
• strawberry goosefoot (Blitum virgatum)
• striped goosefoot (Chenopodium betaceum)
• Tasmanian goosefoot (Dysphania pumilio)
• Ukrainian goosefoot (Chenopodium ucrainicum)
• upright goosefoot (Oxybasis urbica)
• white goosefoot (Chenopodium album)

Translations

flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae

• Arabic: سَرْمَق m (sarmaq)
• Armenian: թելուկ (hy) (tʻeluk)
• Bulgarian: кучешка лобода f (kučeška loboda)
• Catalan: blet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藜 (zh) (lí)

• Dutch: ganzenvoet (nl) m
• Finnish: savikka (fi)
• French: chénopode (fr) m
• German: Gänsefuß (de) m, Gänsefuss (de) m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
• Hungarian: libatop (hu)
• Ingrian: savenjalka
• Irish: cos ghé f, ceathrú chaorach f, blonagán m
• Italian: farinello m
• Latvian: baluoda
• Lithuanian: balanda f
• Polish: komosa (pl) f
• Romanian: fragă-tătărească (ro) f
• Russian: марь (ru) f (marʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прудник m, јурјевац m, пепељуга f, стратор m

  Latin: prudnik (sh) m, jurjevac (sh) m, pepeljuga (sh) f, strator m

• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pólšica f

• Swedish: målla (sv) c
• Turkish: kazayağı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قاز آیاغی (kaz ayağı)

• Ukrainian: лобода (uk) f (loboda)
• Welsh: troed yr ŵydd m

Syngonium podophyllum

• Finnish: muulinkultakorva

References

• “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.