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ˈsilverweed
Also silver-weed, silver weed.
[silver n. Cf. Du. zilverkruid, G. silberkraut.]
1. A common wayside plant of the genus Potentilla (P. anserina) with prostrate rooting stems and silvery leaves; goose-grass or wild tansy.
1578Lyte Dodoens 86 This herbe is now called..in English Wilde Tansie or Siluer weede. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 181 Let them be steeped or infused in water of siluer weed, called wilde tansey, and of parietory of the wall. 1671Phillips (ed. 3), Silverweed, an herb called in Latin Argentina. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 187 Silver-Weed, Bull-Rushes, and other aquatick Herbs. 1782J. Scott Poet. Wks. 12 Comfry white, and hoary silver-weed. 1832Veg. Subst. Food of Man 182 Silver-weed..growing in some parts of Scotland..in times of scarcity made a substitute for bread. 1863Gardener's Chron. 23 May 493 The Silver Weed is a great pest in the arable field, and especially where some damp spots remain. 1880Jefferies Gt. Estate 129 Underfoot..the silverweed opened its yellow petals.
2. (See quots.)
1796Withering Brit. Pl. II. 326 Sibbaldia procumbens.., Procumbent Silver-weed. 1848Craig, Argyreia, Silver-weed. An East Indian genus of plants, so named from the silvery appearance of their leaves. |