lamb's-quarters
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lamb's-quarters
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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She added peeled and cubed eggplant and some sliced leeks, then checked on the amaranth leaves boiling beside them, soft as lamb’s-quarters.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock.
From Time Magazine Archive
In it I put the lamb’s-quarters and water and place it directly on the fire.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Commonest among the wild greens are dandelion, cress, wild mustard, dock, pokeweed sprouts, milkweed sprouts, and lamb's-quarters.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
How pigweeds get about.—In winter we often see dead tops of lamb's-quarters and amaranths—the smooth and the prickly pigweeds—still standing where they grew in the summer.
From Seed Dispersal by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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