| 单词 | german knotgrass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman knotgrass German knotgrass n. [compare post-classical Latin polygonum germanicum (1670 in Ray (compare quot. 1670), or earlier)] now rare knawel, Scleranthus annuus, a creeping plant with pairs of small pointed leaves and inconspicuous green flowers, native to Eurasia and North Africa but common as a weed in many temperate areas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knawel knawel1578 knotweed1578 German knotgrass1670 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 248 Polygonum Germanicum, vel Knawell Germanorum..German Knot-grass, or Knawell. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia I. 591 Our Moderns call it Polygonum Germanicum, and we in English Knawel, or German knotgrass. 1849 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. III. 14/2 The annual species, sometimes called German knotgrass, Scleranthus annuus, is an annual indigen of the sandy corn-fields and other sandy grounds of Britain. 1911 E. F. Andrews Pract. Course Bot. 56 German Knotgrass. A homely weed, with long roots and prostrate or spreading branches. 2006 M. Webber tr. I. Pauwels & G. Christoffels Herbs 88 German Knotgrass, Scleranthus annuus, helps the uncertain and wavering to make discisions [sic]. German knot-grass d. German knot-grass, name for Knawel ( Scleranthus annuus). ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxvii. 97 Of Knotgrasse... There be two kindes... Amongst the kindes of Knot grasse, we may well recken that herbe, whiche doth so wrap and enterlace itself, and is so ful of ioynts, that the base Almaignes cal it knawel, that is to say, knot weede. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 304 Scleranthus..German Knot-grass. < as lemmas |
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