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bistort /ˈbɪstɔːt /nounA Eurasian herbaceous plant with a spike of flesh-coloured flowers and a twisted root.- Genus Polygonum, family Polygonaceae: several species, in particular P. bistorta.
Common wildflowers are a pink-flowered and a white-flowered bistort, Arctic shooting-star, three kinds of buttercups, Parrya nudicaulis, and Langsdorf's lousewort....- However, if this is done before July, many beautiful wild flowers, such as melancholy thistle, wood cranesbill and bistort, which are special to limestone uplands of the north, are mown down before they can seed.
- It was mid-day and I thought the stroll would be better in the evening, the softer light heightening the delicate pink of the bistorts and though there might be more people the traffic noise would be less.
OriginEarly 16th century: from French bistorte or medieval Latin bistorta, from bis 'twice' + torta (feminine past participle of torquere 'to twist'). |