knosp
English
editEtymology
editCompare German knospe (“bud”), English knop, knar.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editknosp (plural knosps)
- (architecture) Alternative form of knop (“a knob”)
- 1818, Henry Hart Milman, Samor, the Lord of The Bright City:
- The gem-knosp'd diadem
- The unopened bud of a flower.
References
edit- “knosp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.