polygony

noun

polygony

noun

Etymology From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon). More at polygonum.

1

Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.

  • Near-synonym: polygonum
  • There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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