jointweed - meaning and definition. What is jointweed
Diclib.com
ChatGPT AI Dictionary
Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:     

Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence

On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:

  • how the word is used
  • frequency of use
  • it is used more often in oral or written speech
  • word translation options
  • usage examples (several phrases with translation)
  • etymology

What (who) is jointweed - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS
Smartweed; Polygonella; Smartweeds; Jointweed

Jointweed         
·noun A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
Polygonum         
·noun A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, ·etc.
Smartweed         
·noun An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

Wikipedia

Polygonum

Polygonum is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the buckwheat and knotweed family Polygonaceae. Common names include knotweed and knotgrass (though the common names may refer more broadly to plants from Polygonaceae). In the Middle English glossary of herbs Alphita (c. 1400–1425), it was known as ars-smerte. There have been various opinions about how broadly the genus should be defined. For example, buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) has sometimes been included in the genus as Polygonum fagopyrum. Former genera such as Polygonella have been subsumed into Polygonum; other genera have been split off.

The genus primarily grows in northern temperate regions. The species are very diverse, ranging from prostrate herbaceous annual plants to erect herbaceous perennial plants.

Polygonum species are occasionally eaten by humans, and are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species – see list. Most species are considered weeds in Europe and North America.