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red weed, red-weed
1. An American plant or plants. Now applied to a species of Phytolacca (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1624Capt. Smith Virginia 170 Here is also frequently growing a certaine tall Plant, whose stalke being all ouer couered with a red rinde, is thereupon termed the red weed. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 796 There grows a Berry (by report) both in the Bermudas and New England, call'd the Summer-Island-Redweed, which Berry is as red as the Prickle-Peare.
2. The corn poppy (Papaver rhœas).
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 35 The most usuall and best way for tythinge of hey is..to make use of reade-weedes for wikes. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) II. 285 Poppy or red-weed seldom grows in the deep and wet lands of Hants. 1788Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 113 A county like this, overrun with red weeds. 1846J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Fl. 25 The farmers call it Red-weed, Red-cap, and Corn Rose. 1881–in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Berks, Hants, Wilts, Devon, etc.). 1899Rider Haggard Farmer's Year 13 Jan., That part of the field produced more poppies than anything else—red weed we call it.
3. a. Herb Robert. b. Knot-grass.
1877Hardwicke's Sci. Gossip Jan. 39 Geranium Robertianum.—The cottagers on Delamere Forest call this ‘Rubwort’ and ‘Red weed’. 1882Devon Plant Names, Redweed, Polygonum aviculare. ‘Redweed and Assmart usually occur together’, said a farmer. |