单词 | knot-grass |
释义 | knot-grassn. 1. The plant Polygonum aviculare, a common weed in waste ground, with numerous intricately-branched creeping stems, and small pale pink flowers; an infusion of it was formerly supposed to stunt the growth. Called by early herbalists †male knot-grass. Also extended to other species of Polygonum, as seaside knot-grass, P. maritimum; Virginian knot-grass, P. virginianum, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knot-grass swine's grasslOE bird's-tonguea1300 sparrow's-tonguea1400 corrigiolec1400 swinecress?a1425 knot-grass1538 way-grass1565 centinode1611 pinkweed1657 breadwort1736 stone-weed1847 allseed1855 knotwort1864 wire-weed1864 willow weed1866 knotweed1884 a1500 Gl. Sloane 5 in T. O. Cockayne Leechdoms, Wortcunning, & Starcraft (1864–6) III. 319/1 Knotting grass.] 2. Applied to various other plants with knotty stems, etc. a. Various grasses, as the Fiorin Grass or Marsh Bent ( Agrostis stolonifera or alba) with creeping rooting stems, and the varieties with knotty rootstock of the False Oat ( Arrhenatherum avenaceum) and a species of Oat-grass ( Avena elatior). ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 19 The chewing flocks Had ta'ne their supper on the savourie herbe Of Knot-grass dew-besprent. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iv. 53 Knot, or Couch-grass. 1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford 324 The creeping bent-grass (Agrostis stolonifera)..the same, I believe, as that called knot-grass in this county. b. Any species of the genera Illecebrum or Paronychia. ΚΠ 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316 Knot Grass, Mountain, Illecebrum. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. §109 Illecebrum. Knot-grass. i.Verticillatum, whorled. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxvii. 97 Of Knotgrasse... There be two kindes..The second kinde whiche they call female Knot grasse, hath..stemmes..much like to the stalkes and ioyntes of Hippuris, or Horse tayle, but not so rough. d. German knot-grass, name for Knawel ( Scleranthus annuus). ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxvii. 97 Of Knotgrasse... There be two kindes... Amongst the kindes of Knot grasse, we may well recken that herbe, whiche doth so wrap and enterlace itself, and is so ful of ioynts, that the base Almaignes cal it knawel, that is to say, knot weede. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 304 Scleranthus..German Knot-grass. Compounds C1. attributive. ΚΠ a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 104 He is much of the size of those Knot-grass Professors. C2. knot-grass moth n. Acronycta rumicis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > acronycta rumicis knot-grass moth1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 250 Knot-grass moth. 1859 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 255 The Knot-Grass.—The antennæ are simple in both sexes... It feeds on the common knot-grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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