Tear-thumb: Definition and part of speech

Tear-thumb

  1. n. A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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