| 单词 | red-knee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-knee red-knee n. (a) (in singular and plural) †the plant water pepper, Persicaria hydropiper (obsolete); (in plural) the related plant redshank, P. maculosa (English regional); †(b) Australian = red-kneed dotterel n. at Compounds 1c(b)(ii) (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-pepper arsesmarta1300 red-kneea1300 culragea1400 smarthole1440 water pepper1538 arsenick1552 ciderage1578 lake-weed1693 water smartweed1867 pochard grass1879 a1300 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 202 [Persicaria] waterwede vel red bne [read kne] vel ersmert. c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 3 (MED) Take gose grese, ambros, spourge, redkne, sperworte. 1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Red knees is Hydropiper. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. VI. Pl. 21 Over what extent of country the Banded Red-knee may range is yet to be determined. 1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 284 Red knees, the plant Polygonum Persicaria. 1907 J. A. Wheldon & A. Wilson Flora W. Lancs. 271 P[olygonum] Persicaria, L.—Persicary. ‘Red-knees’, in the Fylde district—from the swollen red nodes of the stem. < as lemmas |
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