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persicaria

British  
/ ˌpɜːsɪˈkɛərɪə /

noun

  1. another name for red shank

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The water had not covered it for months, and it was all thickly overgrown with persicaria, which the late summer had stained a carmine red, so that the island was all aflame.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

And now, finding it here, the fable revived with added truth and conviction, the legend of the persicaria was as true to her as that other of the Lord's resurrection from death.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

Here is a young one on this leaf of persicaria; do you see it?

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton

The same tradition clings to the purple orchis and the spotted persicaria.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

But this glow of many tints was a sure sign of approaching autumn; so, too, were the reddened stalks of persicaria, filling the dry ditches by the wayside.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

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