frost-blite

English

Noun

frost-blite

1. Lamb's quarters (especially Chenopodium album, syn. Atriplex alba), 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.