pigweed
nounEtymology From pig + weed.
1
Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder
- He still carried the basket with the shags and pig-weed.1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 11:
› Any of various weedy plants sometimes used…
2
Amaranthus species.
3
Chenopodium album, white goosefoot.
4
Portulaca bicolor, of Australia.
5
Polygonum aviculare (common knotgrass).
- Derived terms
- procumbent pigweed, prostrate pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, redroot pigweed