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語源

From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon). More at polygonum.

名詞

polygony (plural polygonies)

1. Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.

   Near-synonym: polygonum

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].