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Definition of fat hen in English: fat hennounfatˈhɛn mass nounA herbaceous plant with mealy edible leaves, often considered to be a weed. Chenopodium alba, family Chenopodiaceae Example sentencesExamples - Crops are weedier than in recent years with fat hen, redshank and knotgrass making a number of crops look increasingly untidy.
- I promise to pull my socks up this week, not least because without urgent attention, fat hen threatens to strangle all my seedlings.
- They also collected seagull eggs, fresh water lobster, whitebait, pipi, mussels, fat hen and watercress.
- But the beauty of most edible plants - nettles, dandelions, alexanders, fat hen, sorrel - is that they are so prolific they are considered a nuisance.
- Plants we now consider to be weeds, such as nettles, dock, fat hen and meadowsweet, regularly appeared on the Iron Age menu.
Origin Late 18th century: said to be so named because the seeds were eaten by poultry. Definition of fat hen in US English: fat hennoun another name for lamb's-quarters Example sentencesExamples - But the beauty of most edible plants - nettles, dandelions, alexanders, fat hen, sorrel - is that they are so prolific they are considered a nuisance.
- Plants we now consider to be weeds, such as nettles, dock, fat hen and meadowsweet, regularly appeared on the Iron Age menu.
- They also collected seagull eggs, fresh water lobster, whitebait, pipi, mussels, fat hen and watercress.
- I promise to pull my socks up this week, not least because without urgent attention, fat hen threatens to strangle all my seedlings.
- Crops are weedier than in recent years with fat hen, redshank and knotgrass making a number of crops look increasingly untidy.
Origin Late 18th century: said to be so named because the seeds were eaten by poultry. |