Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low-growing, stoloniferous plant (Argentina anserina syn. Potentilla anserina) in the rose family, having yellow flowers and pinnate leaves that are silvery beneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, Potentilla Anserina, having pinnate leaves covered beneath with silvery-silky down.
- noun A plant of the convolvulaceous genus Argyreia, containing some 30 chiefly East Indian and Malayan species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A perennial rosaceous herb (
Potentilla Anserina ) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of low-growing
flowering plants , the leaves of which are silvery underneath, some now assigned to the genusArgentina , most previously assigned to genus Potentilla.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers
- noun low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia
Etymologies
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Examples
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The leaves of the silverweed are brown and curled like ageing scraps of paper.
Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010
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Isabelle squinted her eyes, opened them wide, tilted her head left, then right, as she watched Grete walk out to the front yard to check on a patch of silverweed she was cultivating by the woodpile.
Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010
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There is softness in the luxuriance of the grass and the leaves of the silverweed, still curled in upon themselves and looking pale and almost feathery.
Country diary 2010
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Isabelle squinted her eyes, opened them wide, tilted her head left, then right, as she watched Grete walk out to the front yard to check on a patch of silverweed she was cultivating by the woodpile.
Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010
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Salt marshes occur here and there in protected inlets, their lower parts dominated by creeping saltmarsh grass Puccinellia phryganodes, the upper parts by Pacific silverweed Potentilla egedii.
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But when they or their rivals, silverweed, burdock, false ragweed, thistles, gumweed, and others usurp the landscape and seem to choke up the very earth and the very air with ceaseless monotony and repetition, then they become an offence to the eye and a reproach to those who tolerate them.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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Under-foot, almost in the very dust of the road, the silverweed opened its yellow petals, and where there was a dry bank, or by the gateways leading into the corn, the pink pimpernel grew.
Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
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There is softness in the luxuriance of the grass and the leaves of the silverweed, still curled in upon themselves and looking pale and almost feathery.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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The Machair, the low sandy coastal plain, comes alive in summer, yellow with buttercups and iris, silverweed and eyebright.
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I love the gorse and the bracken, I love the stagnant pond, I love the very geese that tug hard at the silverweed, they make it all seem so deliciously English. "
The Woman Who Did Grant Allen 1873
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