| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.[Websters]. | |
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Date "BLITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Etymology:Blite \Blite\ (bl[imac]t), noun. [Latin expression blitum, Greek bli`ton.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BLITE
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] A genus of plants, called strawberry spinach. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: BLITE
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| Sea blite | A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Strawberry blite | 1: (Bot.) See under Blite . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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