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Knapweed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Knapweed [Orig. knopweed, f. KNOP sb.1 + WEED sb.; from the hard rounded involucre.] The common name of species of Centaurea (N. O. Compositæ), esp. C. nigra, a common weed with a hard tough stem, and light purple flowers set on a hard rough dark-colored globular ‘head’ or involucre.

1   α.  14[?].  MS. Laud 553 lf. 13. Iasia nigra … is an herbe yt me clepitth maidfeloun or bolwes or yrnehard or knopwed.

2 1530.  Palsgr., 236/2. Knoppe wede an herbe.

3 1691.  Ray, Coll. Words, Postscr. 171. For Knapweed, Knopweed, because of the knops at the top.

4 1787.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 2), Knopweed.

5 1863.  Prior, Plant-n., Knap-weed, Knop-, or Knob-weed.

6   β.  1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. ccxxxviii. 588. Matfellon or blacke Knapweede is doubtlesse a kinde of Scabious … the flowers do grow at the top of the stalks, being first small scaly knops, like to the knops of Corne flower.

7 1656.  W. Coles, Art of Simpling, 38. Some grow in knaps like bottles as knapweed.

8 1785.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvi. (1794), 401. Common or Black Knapweed … which the country people in some places call Hard-heads.

9 1896.  R. F. Horton, in Sunday Mag., Nov., 722. Within the enclosure were ragwort, knapweed, and scabious.

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