It means insignificant, worthless, unimportant. It's another way to call Amaranth or each of its seeds. Plant of the family Amaranthaceae . It is also known as yerba Caracas, pipilongo or pyre. It has medicinal and gastronomic uses. It is of high nutritional value and can be used as a seasoning in place of pepper. Name given to the brush or brush used by the hairdresser.
BLEDO In Chile, something that has no value or importance. It comes from bledo, a quenopodiaceous plant with red flowers and violet variations, which look like a long stem with lots of balls grouped in rows and growing wildly like weeds. Hence the saying "I don't give a damn", meaning "I couldn't care less" or, stronger, "I brush my teeth with your explanation", "I put it where the sun never illuminates". Bledo is synonymous with amarantus, from the Greek Amarathos meaning a- sin and -withered marathos.
Herbaceous plant in the genus chenopodium or also of the genus amaranthus; some very valuable in human food as amaranthus caudatus or chenopodium berlandieri present even in pre-Columbian America; other little valued considered weeds or wild forage here certain expressions like I care or not worth a damn. One of these insignificant plants considered weeds by market gardeners is chenopodium album, Harrier or chirincho.
