Thorny Amaranth (Noun)
Meaning
Erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Thorny amaranth has become a noxious weed in many areas where it has been introduced as a crop or garden plant.
- Thorny amaranth was identified as the species with the highest herbicide use efficiency for managing Palmer amaranth in dicamba-resistant cotton.
- This makes the thorny amaranth difficult to handle when removing from gardens, greenhouses or crops where it grows as a weed.
- As with most weedy species of Amaranthus, the thorny amaranth grows best in well-drained soils rich in nitrogen.
- Seeds of the thorny amaranth germinate well when in the surface layer of soil with an average air temperature above 24 °C (75 °F).