silverweedn.
1. A common wayside plant of the genus Potentilla ( P. anserina) with prostrate rooting stems and silvery leaves; goose-grass or wild tansy.
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quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 86 This herbe is now called..in English Wilde Tansie or Siluer weede.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 181 Let them be steeped or infused in water of siluer weed, called wilde tansey, and of parietory of the wall.
1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Silverweed, an herb called in Latin Argentina.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 187 Silver-Weed, Bull-Rushes, and other aquatick Herbs.
1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 12 Comfry white, and hoary silver-weed.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 182 Silver-weed..growing in some parts of Scotland..in times of scarcity made a substitute for bread.
1863 Gardeners' Chron. 23 May 493 The Silver Weed is a great pest in the arable field, and especially where some damp spots remain.
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 129 Underfoot..the silverweed opened its yellow petals.
2. (See quots.)
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 326 Sibbaldia procumbens.., Procumbent Silver-weed.
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Argyreia, Silver-weed. An East Indian genus of plants, so named from the silvery appearance of their leaves.
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