Meanings
nounpolygony (plural polygonies)
plural polygonies
- Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.
Near-synonym: polygonum
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There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCSynonyms: polygonum
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.
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Origin
- Ancient Greekπολύγονον
- Latinpolygonium
- Englishpolygony
From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon). More at polygonum.
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polygony. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polygony
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“polygony.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polygony. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “polygony,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polygony.
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