Lexic.us

Definition of Silverweed

1. Noun. Any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers.

2. Noun. Low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia.

Definition of Silverweed

1. n. A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Definition of Silverweed

1. Noun. A low-growing flowering plant, ''Potentilla anserina'', the leaves of which are silvery underneath ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Silverweed

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Medical Definition of Silverweed

1. A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silverweed

silversmithies silversmithing silversmithings silversmiths silversmithy silverspot silverspots silversword silverswords silvertip

silvertone silvertop palmetto silvervine silverware silverwares silverweed (current term) silverweeds silverwork silverworker silverworks

silvery silvery-cheeked antshrike silvery gibbon silvery gibbons silvery marmoset silvery marmosets silvery pomfret silvery pomfrets silvery sedge silvery spleenwort

Literary usage of Silverweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nature Book: A Popular Description by Pen and Camera of the Delights and (1908)
"... and it does not flower until later in the year. silverweed One of the most common plants to be found by the roadside is the silverweed silverweed. ..."

2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"silverweed [Tansy seed] is a plant whose leaves are like those of ... It is called silverweed because the leaf is white, but the seed is red and very small. ..."

3. Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific edited by Bettina Von Hagen, James F. Weigand, Rebecca McLain, Roger Fight (1998)
"... and Pacific silverweed (Potentilla anserina ssp. pacifica). Economic Botany. 36: 411-432. Describes the historical use of two important wild plants in ..."

4. Popular field botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the by Agnes Catlow (1848)
"silverweed. A beautiful species of Potentilla, very common by road-sides and moist pastures, and called silverweed, from the white silky down, ..."

5. The Weed Flora of Iowa by L. H. Pammel, Charlotte M King, John Nathan Martin (1913)
"Herbaceous perennial, spreading by slender runners; numerous white-tomentose and silky-villous leaves, all radi- Fig. 100. silverweed (Potentilla ..."

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