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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knotgrass \Knot"grass'\, noun (Bot.) (a) a common weed with jointed stems {(Polygonum aviculare)}; knotweed. (b) The dog grass. See under {Dog}.
Note: An infusion of {Polygonum aviculare} was once supposed to have the effect of stopping the growth of an animal, and hence it was called, as by Shakespeare, ''hindering knotgrass.''
We want a boy extremely for this function, Kept under for a year with milk and knotgrass. --Beau. & Fl.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
knotgrass
noun: low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems [syn: {Paspalum distichum}]
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