English Explanatory Dictionary

Good King Henry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A goosefoot of species Blitum bonus-henricus (syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus), native to Britain and much of Europe, cultivated as a vegetable.

Word forms

Good King Henry good-king-henry

Etymology

1640; alteration (influenced by the name of Henry VII (1457–1509), King of England) of Good-Henry (1578), from the name Henry.

Synonyms

Lincolnshire spinach mercury poor man's asparagus markery English mercury allgood
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