Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local English name for one or more species of Equisetum, or horsetails, given because some of the kinds are employed in polishing tin cans and other metallic vessels.
- noun The yellow water-lily, Nuphar luteum: so called from its dock-like leaves and flagon-shaped seed-vessels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (
Nuphar luteum ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plant orweed that grows inrivers . - noun A
species ofEquisetum . - noun The yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
Etymologies
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Probably can + dock (see dock ("a plant")). Compare German Kannenkraut ("horsetail"), literally "canweed".
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