persicaryn.
/ˈpəːsᵻk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpərsəˌkɛri/ Now archaic.
A plant of the genus Persicaria (see persicaria n.), esp. spotted persicaria, P. maculosa.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies
adderwortOE
arsesmarta1300
persicarya1400
persicaria?a1450
polygonya1500
buckwheat1548
polygonum1562
passions1568
bistort1578
oysterloit1578
goat's wheat1597
peachwort1597
plumbago1597
redshank1597
snake-weed1597
dragonwort1656
smartweed1787
patience dock1796
red-legs1820
passion dock1828
smartgrass1837
mud knotweed1845
jointweed1866
tear-thumb1866
pinch-weed1883
knotweed1884
sachaline1901
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 83 Þe ius of þe leeues of pechis, or ellis persicarie [L. persicarie].
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 77v (MED) And aftirward take þe croppis of eldren and an herb þat is clepid persicarie, seþe hem in watir..bete alle þese togideris..wiþ haris grese, and leye it þerto at euen.
1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 146 They take the biting Persicary, and chew it.
1757 J. Bartram Let. 24 Jan. in Amer. Jrnl. Bot. (1988) 75 1092/1 The species of Persicary thee mentions, is what Tournefort brought from the three churches, at the foot of Mount Ararat.
1874 Saturday Jrnl. 13 June 147/1 The ‘Virgin's Pinch’ is the black mark on the Persicary.
1938 M. Hadfield Everyman's Wild Flowers & Trees 131 Spotted Persicary, Polygonum Persicaria... A branching annual up to 2 ft. high.
1972 R. Adams Watership Down xlv. 375 The weeds of harvest—knot-grass and pimpernel..heartsease and persicary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a1400