goosefoot

English

Chenopodium capitatum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːsfʊt/

Noun

goosefoot (plural goosefoots)

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

Synonyms

• pigweed

Derived terms

• leafy goosefoot
• white goosefoot

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
• Ottoman Turkish: قاز آیاغی (kaz ayağı)
• Polish: komosa 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)
• Ukrainian: лобода (uk) f (loboda)
• Welsh: troed yr ŵydd m

References

• “goosefoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “goosefoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.