pigweed

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
noun leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
noun leaves collected from the wild

From pig + weed.

You’re half a head taller than when you were here before.” “Yes, I’ve begun to grow like pigweed in the night, as Mrs. Lynde says,” said Paul, in frank delight over the fact. — Anne of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
That’s Roman wormwood,—that’s pigweed,—that’s sorrel,—that’s piper-grass,—have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don’t let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he’ll turn himself t’other side up and be as green as a leek in two days. — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. — The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

lamb's-quarters, wild spinach, Chenopodium album

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