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Goosefoot

Goosefoot, the popular name for the wild species of the genus Chenopodium, weedy plants with generally triangular leaves, sometimes mealy, minute flowers with five perianth-leaves, five stamens, and two styles; and a single seed with copious floury albumen, in a one-chambered ovary. The genus, which comprises about fifty widely distributed species, is the type of the cepetalous order Chenopodiacccc.