Polygony

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.

    "There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...]."

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"There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...]."

Etymology

From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon).

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