frost-blite

noun

Lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba), formerly also called orach.

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Meanings

noun
  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
    1 more example

    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
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