pigweed
- n common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
- n leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
- n leaves collected from the wild
- For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread .
- The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog .
- However, there are some of us who live with grass, dandelions and pigweed, who drive second-hand Chevvies and read such unintellectual things as PTI magazine, but think that .