Agalinis
noun
Ag·a·li·nis
ˌa-gə-ˈlī-nəs
: a genus of flaxlike American herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) with opposite sessile leaves and irregular tubular mostly purple flowers
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from Greek aga-, intensifying prefix (going back to Indo-European *mǵh2- "large, great") + New Latin -linis (derivative of Latin līnum "flax")
First Known Use
1913, in the meaning defined above
- knock on doors
- knock on the door of
- knock on the head
- knock on wood
- knock one's socks off
- knock oneself out
- knock over
- knock poker
- knock rummy
- knock sideways
- knock silly
- knock some sense into someone
- knock some sense into someone's head
- knock someone down a peg
- knock someone flying
- knock someone for six
- knock someone off (his stride
- knock someone off her pedestal
- knock someone off her) stride
- knock someone off his pedestal
- knock someone sideways
- knock someone's block off
- knock someone's head off
- knock someone's head/block off
- knock someone's socks off