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Noun
frost-blite
- Lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba),[1] formerly also called orach.
1812, Robert John Thornton, The British Flora, Or, Genera and Species of British Plants:Frost Blite: In Isla the poor people boil and eat it as greens.
1912, I. A. Portchinsky, Our Lady Bugs (Coccinellinae) and Their Economic Significance, page 23: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.
References
- “frost-blite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “frost-blite”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “frost-blite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ 1863-1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the Popular Names of British Plants