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单词 polygonum
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polygonumn.

Brit. /pəˈlɪɡənəm/, /pəˈlɪɡn̩əm/, /pɒˈlɪɡənəm/, /pɒˈlɪɡn̩əm/, U.S. /pəˈlɪɡənəm/
Forms:

α. 1500s 1700s poligonum, 1500s– polygonum.

β. 1600s poligonon, 1600s polygonon.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin polygonum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin polygonum (compare classical Latin polygonus (Pliny), polygona (Columella)) < Hellenistic Greek πολύγονον knotgrass < ancient Greek πολυ- poly- comb. form + γόνυ (see polygonate adj.1). Compare Spanish †polígono (1580 or earlier). Compare earlier polygony n. and the Old French form cited at that entry.In β forms after Hellenistic Greek πολύγονον.
1. Originally: knotgrass, esp. Polygonum aviculare. Later also (in form Polygonum): a large and widely distributed genus of plants, the type of the family Polygonaceae, comprising chiefly herbaceous plants having stems with swollen joints sheathed by stipules, and small pink or white apetalous flowers; (also polygonum) a plant belonging or formerly belonging to this genus.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 359.Many plants originally included in the genus, such as bistort and water pepper, are now often placed in Persicaria (in the same family).
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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
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 96v Polygonum the male..is an herbe that hath tendre branches and soft set about with little knees or knoppes about the ioyntes.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxvii. 35 Iuyce of Poligonum.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. clxii. 453 The snowie white and least kinde of Polygonum or Knot grasse..is a strange and woorthie plant to behold, handle, and consider.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xxvii. xii. 287 There is not an hearb or plant that they be more carefull..to haue alwaies ready at hand, than Polygonon, for to stanch any issue or flix of bloud whatsoever.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) ii. xlvi. 229 Then Crespinet, or Poligonon, which euer groweth best in a moist ground.
1701 C. Preston Let. 13 Jan. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 312 Placed amongst the Polygonums.
1702 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 4) Poligonum, Knot-Grass.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 327 Snakeweed, Polygonum.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 974 The bidens..in general did not vegetate so long as the polygonum.
1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 580 We also find that the ants rear the young, before the ground is planted, upon the roots of Setaria and Polygonum.
1900 J. M. Abbott in W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening viii. 279 Polygonums are plants of easy culture.
1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 4/2 Foliage was provided by thalictrum and the pink tassles [sic] of the polygonum.
1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 74/1 The real curse is that nomenclatural rules being what they are few of the garden worthy plants can remain in Polygonum.
2002 Water Gardener July 28/2 Bold yellow marsh marigolds, purple loosestrife and pink polygonums.
2. Australian. Any of several thicket-forming shrubs of the genus Muehlenbeckia (also of the family Polygonaceae), esp. M. cunninghamii. Also called lignum. Now rare except in compounds (see Compounds).
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1819 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1917) 1st Ser. X. 28 A barren marsh, over-run with a species of polygonum.
1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. Southern Austral. I. 146 Its [sc. the creek's] bed was choaked up with bulrushes or the polygonum.
1901 K. L. Parker in M. Muir My Bush Bk. (1982) 62 The next day seemed more monotonous; all coolabah and polygonum—the ‘leafless bramble’ of Sturt.

Compounds

General attributive. Chiefly Australian (frequently designating places covered with a growth of polygonum (genus Muehlenbeckia)).
polygonum bush n.
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1849 Adelaide Misc. 11 Oct. 50 It was not long before two pretty little crested pigeons fluttered out of a polygonum bush.
1993 C. H. Berndt & J. E. Stanton World that Was viii. 144 The next day the grandmother would build a fire upon which were piled leaves or branches of the watji (polygonum bush) with a covering of light branches.
polygonum creek n. Obsolete
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1876 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 18 Nov. 822/2 He had shot more than one polygonum creek, straight and true as an Indian.
polygonum flat n. Obsolete
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1847 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 17 109 The precincts of this creek were bare of vegetation, and resembled the polygonum flats of the Darling.
1898 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Romance of Canvas Town 126 They drew back by degrees into the polygonum flat which at that point bordered the river.
polygonum scrub n.
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1851 Bell's Life in Sydney 15 Mar. 7/2 A high condition is so easily sustained by the abundance of salt Bush (Rhagodia) and Polygonum scrub.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xv. 132 The party..made across the marshes, but very soon were baffled by broad belts of reeds and polygonum scrub.
polygonum swamp n.
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1879 Queenslander 26 Apr. 531/3 We came to a coolibah forest—from this into a vile polygonum swamp, the worst I was ever in.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai viii. 125 The brick walls dissolved into..polygonum swamps over which the long legged jabiroo flew creaking on its way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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