the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach
Examples of 'goosefoot family' in a sentence
goosefoot family
It belongs to the goosefoot family and in some books it is called white goosefoot.