fat hen

English

Chenopodium album. Hockheim, Germany

Alternative forms

• fathen

Noun

fat hen (uncountable)

1. Hen and chicks, a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa
2. Thin-leaf orach (Atriplex prostrata).
3. (UK) White goosefoot (Chenopodium album), a fast-growing weedy annual plant cultivated in some places and a weed elsewhere.
4. (UK) Other species, such as Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)

Translations

a plant of the genus Chenopodium

• French: chénopode blanc (fr) m
• Maori: huainanga

References

• “fat hen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• fat hen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• NATFHE