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frost-blite

frost-blite noun: lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba), formerly also called orach.

Noun

frost-blite

  1. 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

Questions about frost-blite

What does frost-blite mean?
Frost-blite means lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba), formerly also called orach.
What part of speech is frost-blite?
Frost-blite is a noun.

Words near frost-blite in the dictionary

  1. frost up
  2. frost weathering
  3. frost wedging
  4. frost-bearer
  5. frost-bearers
  6. frost-blite
  7. frost-fish
  8. frost-nail
  9. frost-nails
  10. frost-proof
  11. frost-root

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