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  • The genus name, Chenopodium is derived from the Greek chen, meaning "goose" and podus, meaning "foot."

    Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010

  • Halli Hallo just another version, but probably more antiquated and not on the same "chen" track.

    Hallochen? C N Heidelberg 2008

  • I think the danger of mis-interpreting the genuine effort of fighting corruption are plenty: e.g., false message that grey areas are okay, to the extent that sympathies are given to criminals such as chen xitong and chen liangyu -- they are victims of party struggle.

    Maybe there is no conspiracy Sun Bin 2006

  • The name is a corruption of the Chinese Jin-chen, meaning man-like, for the branching roots are said to resemble the human form.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • The Harvester lifted a plant to show the Girl that the Chinese name, Jin-chen, meaning man-like, originated because the divided root resembled legs.

    The Harvester 1911

  • The Harvester lifted a plant to show the Girl that the Chinese name, Jin-chen, meaning man-like, originated because the divided root resembled legs.

    The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Inappropriately appending 'chen' or 'li' on the end of everything makes me gleeful and drives everyone else crazy.

    she.geek.nz 2009

  • Inappropriately appending 'chen' or 'li' on the end of everything makes me gleeful and drives everyone else crazy.

    she.geek.nz 2009

  • This word, "chen," looked like the Hebrew word for "grace," but Melville defined it as

    Gypsy Scholar 2009

  • Inappropriately appending 'chen' or 'li' on the end of everything makes me gleeful and drives everyone else crazy.

    she.geek.nz 2009

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