blite
AmericanEtymology
Origin of blite
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin blitum < Greek blíton
Example Sentences
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Pipelines running from the sea bring water that recreates the tide and irrigates crops of bright green samphire stalks and sea blite, a herb-like plant that looks like rosemary, as well as aster.
From Reuters
The overlapping black-and-white contrasts become blite and whack with all the choreographic changes — spectacular.
From New York Times
Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
From Project Gutenberg
Flowers in small heads, in the axils or in terminal spikes; leaves sinuately toothed or nearly entire Strawberry Blite, Chenopodium capitatum. 9b.
From Project Gutenberg
Strawberry Blite is a hardy annual, growing spontaneously in some parts of France, Spain, and Tartary; is not a very old inhabitant of our gardens, Mr. Aiton mentioning it as being first cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1759.
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