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单词 seaside knot-grass
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seaside knot-grass
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.
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1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Poligonon Knotgyrs.1560 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Life (rev. ed.) sig. Cvii It is good for the paciente to..drinke the iuice of knotgrasse.1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 451 The common male Knot grasse creepeth along vpon the ground, with long slender weake branches, full of knots or ioints, whereof it tooke his name.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 330 You dwarfe; You minimus, of hindring knot grasse, made. View more context for this quotation1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 12 Knot-grass, the very worst of Garden-weeds.1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x. 295 The wiry, jointed stems of that iron creeping plant which we call ‘knot-grass’.
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