red shank

British

noun

Also called: persicaria. lady's-thumb. an annual polygonaceous plant, Polygonum persicaria , of N temperate regions, having red stems, narrow leaves, and oblong spikes of pink flowers

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"You get larger animals eating insects. Curlews, meadow pip, red shank - all these things depend upon insects and crustaceans that will be in these specialist mosaics of bog."

From BBC

I got up an' ran like a red shank t' McShane's house.

From Project Gutenberg

The dye was made by digging up red shank and wild indigo roots which were boiled.

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