polygonum
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polygonum
C18: New Latin, from Greek polugonon knotgrass, from polu- poly- + -gonon, from gonu knee
Example Sentences
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A considerable quantity of saltbush of various kinds around the lake and on the flats, with some polygonum on the flooded flats; innumerable pigeons.
From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by McKinlay, John
The polygonum bushes are also fresh and good, in such places.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
Not less the ambitious botanist sought plants, Orchis and gentian, fern and long whip-scirpus, Rosy polygonum, lake-margin's pride, Hypnum and hydnum, mushroom, sponge and moss, Or harebell nodding in the gorge of falls.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
They have watercourses and polygonum flats bordered with box trees, but we met with no holes fit to hold a supply of water.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
Again we came upon wide fields of polygonum, and tracks of open forest with large lagoons.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
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