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单词 redweed
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redweedn.

Brit. /ˈrɛdwiːd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌwid/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and weed n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., weed n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + weed n.1
1. Agriculture. The field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, regarded as an agricultural weed; (also) such weeds collectively.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy
poppyeOE
wild poppya1300
red poppya1400
mecop1480
corn-rose1527
field poppy1597
redweed1609
darnel1612
cockrose?1632
canker1640
tell-love1640
rose poppy1648
erratic poppy1661
corn poppy1671
headwark1691
cop-rose1776
headachea1825
thunderbolt1847
thunder-flower1853
Iceland poppy1870
Greenland poppy1882
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. H2 The most stinking and poysonful weeds, as redweed, marges, henbane & the like.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 37 The most usuall and best way for tythinge of hey is..to make use of reade-weeds for wikes.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden iii. 6 Poppy for the most part, yet in some Countries it is called Red-weed; in others..Cheese-bouls.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) II. 285 Poppy or red-weed seldom grows in the deep and wet lands of Hants.
1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 113 A county like this, overrun with red weeds.
1846 J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Flowers 25 The farmers call it Red-weed, Red-cap, and Corn Rose.
1899 H. R. Haggard Farmer's Year 13 Jan. That part of the field produced more poppies than anything else—red weed we call it.
1966 M. R. Krythe All about Months 148 They often grow wild in wheat and hay fields. Since the plant is hard to get rid of, farmers sometimes call it ‘redweed’, ‘canker’, or ‘headache’.
1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 52 It is a loose, spongy ground, and Farmer Barr was of the mind that, were I to plough it up and sow it to one earth..I would have much trouble with the redweed, or poppy.
2. North American. The plant pokeweed, Phytolacca americana.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Phytolaccaceae (poke-weed and allies) > [noun]
redweed1624
poke1687
phytolacca1730
pork physic1733
pokeweed1751
pokeberry1754
rivina1754
guinea-hen weed1836
hoop-withe1847
pocan1858
strong man's weed1864
ink weed1913
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 170 Here is also frequently growing a certaine tall Plant, whose stalke being all ouer couered with a red rinde, is thereupon termed the red weed.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 796 There grows a Berry (by report) both in the Bermudas and New England, call'd the Summer-Island-Redweed, which Berry is as red as the Prickle-Peare.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Bot. II Red-Weed of Virginia, is Solanum magnum Virginianum rubrum.
1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 79 This plant is the same as the red-weed or poke of Virginia and New England, from which the Indians prepare a red dye.
1960 Geogr. Rev. 50 8 The pokeberry is known as pocan.., scoke, coakum..and redweed.
2002 Weed Technol. 16 545/2 Differences in control were noted among the herbicide treatments for prickly sida and redweed.
3. English regional (south-western). The plant knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare. Now rare.
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a1824 B. Holdich in G. Sinclair Holdich's Ess. Weeds of Agric. (1825) v. 63 Knot-grass, snake-weed, red-weed (Polygonum aviculare).
1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 47 Redweed, Polygonum aviculare. L. ‘Redweed and Assmart usually occur together,’ said a farmer to me.
4. English regional (Cheshire). The plant herb Robert, Geranium robertianum.
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1877 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 13 39/2 Geranium Robertianum.—The cottagers on Delamere Forest call this ‘Rubwort’ and ‘Red weed’.
1949 F. H. Crossley Cheshire 360 Redweed Geranium Robertianum (Delamere).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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