polygony
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon).
Noun
[edit]polygony (plural polygonies)
- 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 [...].