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goosefoot

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɡuːsfʊt/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of many flowering plants, of the saltbush subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers, including spinach.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Any of species Syngonium podophyllum of plants cultivated as houseplants, native from Bolivia to Mexico, naturalized elsewhere.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant

Narrower terms: lamb's-quarters, pigweed, wild spinach, Chenopodium album, American wormseed, Mexican tea, Spanish tea, wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, good-king-henry, allgood, fat hen, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, Jerusalem oak, feather geranium, Chenopodium botrys, Atriplex mexicana, strawberry blite, strawberry pigweed, Indian paint, Chenopodium capitatum, oak-leaved goosefoot, oakleaf goosefoot, Chenopodium glaucum, sowbane, red goosefoot, Chenopodium hybridum, nettle-leaved goosefoot, nettleleaf goosefoot, Chenopodium murale, French spinach, Chenopodium rubrum, stinking goosefoot, Chenopodium vulvaria

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَرْمَق (sarmaq) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Armenian: թելուկ (tʻeluk) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Bulgarian: кучешка лобода (kučeška loboda) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Catalan: blet — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Chinese Mandarin: 藜 (lí) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Dutch: ganzenvoet — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Finnish: savikka — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • French: chénopode — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • German: Gänsefuß — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • German: Gänsefuss — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Hungarian: libatop — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Ingrian: savenjalka — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Irish: cos ghé — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Irish: ceathrú chaorach — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Irish: blonagán — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Italian: farinello — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Latvian: baluoda — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Lithuanian: balanda — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Polish: komosa — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Romanian: fragă-tătărească — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Russian: марь (marʹ) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: прудник — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: јурјевац — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: пепељуга — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: стратор — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: prudnik — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: jurjevac — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: pepeljuga — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Serbo-Croatian: strator — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Upper Sorbian: pólšica — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Swedish: målla — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Turkish: kazayağı — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Ottoman Turkish: قاز آیاغی (kaz ayağı) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Ukrainian: лобода (loboda) — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Welsh: troed yr ŵydd — flowering plant of the subfamily Chenopodioideae
  • Finnish: muulinkultakorva — Syngonium podophyllum