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Polygonum :: Polygonum (n.) A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc..

Lakeweed :: Lakeweed (n.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America..

Baptistry :: Baptistry (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near..

Broach :: Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper..

Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Sheathing :: Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants..

Subprehensile :: Subpolygonal (a.) Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.

Polygonaceous :: Polygonaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera..

Lady''s Seal :: Lady's seal () The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).

Centinody :: Centinody (n.) A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass..

Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..

Apothem :: Apothem (n.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

Homologue :: Homologue (n.) That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale..

Progne :: Progne (n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma..

Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.

Cornbind :: Cornbind (n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus..

Culrage :: Culrage (n.) Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).

Jointweed :: "Jointweed (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers..

Polygonous :: Polygonous (a.) Polygonal.

Nonagon :: Nonagon (n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

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