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ˈpigweed
A name given to m any plants used as animal fodder or potherbs, esp. goosefoots belonging to the genus Chenopodium and amaranths, esp. Amaranthus retroflexus; in Australia, a name for purslane, Portulaca oleracea.
1806T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems (rev. ed.) 17 The hyacinth and daffodil, With now and then a big weed Of purslain and of pig weed. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 110 A weed not unlike the common pig-weed. 1844H. Hutchinson Pract. Drainage Land 159 The roots of a weed called pig weed. 1850[see apple-peru]. 1854Thoreau Walden vii. (1886) 159 That's Roman wormwood,—that's pigweed,—that's sorrel,—that's piper-grass. 1864R. Henning Let. 4 Mar. (1966) 157 The Irish family..were so alarmed at the idea of getting scurvy also..that the two little girls..devoted their leisure to picking ‘pigweed’, rather a nasty wild plant, but supposed to be exceedingly wholesome, either chopped up with vinegar or boiled. 1865Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 5/1 The tiny islets being covered with pig-weed, large earwigs, and land crabs. 1884Harper's Mag. Mar. 601/2 Here we find..pig-weed six inches in stem, and wearing a huge flower like a hat. 1892Ch. Times 15 Jan. 43/1 [Famine in Russia] Those who have bread are compelled to adulterate it with pigweed [Chenopodium rubrum], which, taken in quantities, is a bitter emetic. 1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 146 We..lived for months at a time on damper, bullock and pigweed in a bark humpy. 1909L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxvii. 319 I've begun to grow like pigweed in the night. 1911W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Plants 298 Portulaca oleracea. ‘Common Purslane’ or ‘Pigweed’. 1927M. M. Bennett Christison xi. 116 It's a hungry place, Lammermoor! Nothing to eat but pigweed and mutton. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang vii. 55 There were creepers too, crowfoot and pigweed, parakelia and geranium. 1943Fernald & Kinsey Edible Wild Plants Eastern N. Amer. 177 Pigweed, Goosefoot, Lamb's-Quarters, Chenopodium album and 14 other species... The common Pigweed, so familiar in rich garden soil, in barnyards, and similar habitats, has always been a popular potherb. 1945J. M. Fogg Weeds of Lawn & Garden 75 The Green Amaranth or Pigweed is the most common species of the genus found as a garden weed. 1965Austral. Encycl. VII. 232/1 The almost cosmopolitan P[ortulaca] oleracea (..purslane or pigweed) is used as a green food by Indonesian and Polynesian peoples. 1966L. J. King Weeds of World i. 12 The grain amaranths are inextricably involved in any history of the non-cultivated or weedy amaranths or ‘pigweeds’. 1975D. McClintock Wild Flowers of Guernsey 86 Pigweeds [sc. species of Amaranthus] are unexpectedly rare in Guernsey. |