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单词 bow-weed
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bow-weedn.

Forms: 1500s bow-wood, 1800s bow-weed.
Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bow n.1, weed n.1
Etymology: Perhaps < bow n.1 + weed n.1, although compare boll-weed n. at boll n.1 Compounds and bull-weed n. at bull- comb. form , of either of which this could perhaps show a variant or alteration.The form bow-wood probably shows a folk-etymological alteration after wood n.1
corruptly bow-wood. A popular name of Centaurea nigra: cf. bull-weed n. at bull- comb. form .
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1878–86 Britten & Holland cite Appendix to Gerard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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