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ˈgoose-foot
Used as the name of various objects resembling the foot of a goose.
1. A plant belonging to one of the various species of the genus Chenopodium; so called from the shape of the leaves. Pl. goosefoots.
The Eng. name seems to have been a translation from the Ger. A Lat. plant-name of the same etymological meaning, Chēnopus (Gr. χηνόπους) occurs in Pliny.
1548Turner Names of Herbes H iij b, Pes anserinus is called in duch gensz [mispr. geusz] fusz and it may be called in englishe Goose-fote. 1555Eden Decades 262 The herbe cauled Chenopode (which sume caule goose foote). 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 528 The hearb goosefoot is venemous to swine. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cccix. 577 Goose-foot or Sowbane. 1698J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 401 With Leaves somewhat like our Goosefoot. 1738G. C. Deering Catal. Stirp. 34 The other Goosefoot..called by some Country People Fat Hen. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvii. 221 Such are all the Goose-foots, of which there are no less than twenty species. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 38 The goose-foots..and other unattractive plants. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 224 Artificial Shagreen used to be made by pressing a piece of leather upon the seeds of White Goosefoot so as to raise a warted surface.
b. The plant Aspalathus Chenopoda.
1848Rural Cycl. II. 480 Goosefoot..A beautiful, yellow-flowered, evergreen, Cape-of-Good-Hope shrub.
2. Something arranged or made in the shape of a goose's foot; e.g. a three-branched hinge, or a number of roads diverging from a common point. Pl. goose-feet. [= F. patte d'oie.]
1516–17in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 417 Le gosfote ad magnam portam occidentalem collegii. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 19 A Goose-foot, which leads into the great Walks. Ibid. 54 The Walks of these Goose-feet center every one upon the Spouts of the Water⁓work. 1741Stack in Phil. Trans. XLI. 683 The Goose⁓foot formed by the Valve being much more compounded. |