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lamb's-quarters
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lamb's-quarters, n.
A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family, introduced into N. America, and sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa .
"It is sometimes collected from the wild and eaten as a vegetable" [1913 Webster]
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