red shank

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

"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

Red′seed, small crustaceans which float on the sea; Red′-shank, an aquatic bird of the snipe family, with legs of a bright-red colour: a name given in ridicule to the Scottish Highlanders, and to the Irish.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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