polygony

English

knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare, a species of polygony

Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Noun

polygony (plural polygonies)

1. Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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