frost-blite
noun1
Lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba), formerly also called orach.
- Frost Blite: In Isla the poor people boil and eat it as greens.1812, Robert John Thornton, The British Flora, Or, Genera and Species of British Plants:
- After the gathering of the crops the Ladybugs again began to migrate to other plants, as corn, orach, pigweed, frost-blite, notch-weed, which were inhabited by Aphis evonymi; in a few days all the colonies of the latter were annihilated by the Lady-bugs.1912, I. A. Portchinsky, Our Lady Bugs (Coccinellinae) and Their Economic Significance, page 23: