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6 words match “KNOTGRASS”

KNOTGRASS n. 2 definitions

a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.

BIRD'S-TONGUE n.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

with a sterm of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.

arine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers. (b) A species of knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). (c) The annual spear grass (Poa annua). -- Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. -- Goo…

OCHREATE; OCHREATED a.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

ow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine. -- Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. -- Swine's cress (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus). -- Swine's h…