different between polygonum vs polygony

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek a kind of plant; ????? (polús, “many, much”) + ????? (g?nía, “corner, angle”). So called in allusion to the numerous joints

Noun

polygonum (plural polygonums)

1. (botany) Any of many plants, of the family Polygonaceae, embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.ly??o?.num/, [p?l???o?n???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.li??o.num/, [p?li????num]

Noun

polyg?num n (genitive polyg?n?); second declension

1. (mathematics) polygon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• polygonum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• polygonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (polúgonon).

Noun

polygony (plural polygonies)

1. Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

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