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FAT HEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
Synonyms:
allgood; Chenopodium bonus-henricus; fat hen; good-king-henry; wild spinach
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fat hen" is a kind of...):
goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)
Meronyms (parts of "fat hen"):
wild spinach (leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach)