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un-fortredde

  • noun
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not destroyed by treading; a name given to a plant that can grow in trodden paths, knot-grass; polygonum aviculare
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  • Pilogonus et sanguinaria ðæt is unfortredde,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 66.
  • Unfortrædde. Ðeós wyrt ðe man proserpinacam and óðrum naman unfortredde nemneþ, heó bið cenned gehwǽr on begánum stówum,

    • Lchdm. i. 112, 4-7.
Etymology
[Cf. way-grass, E. D. S. Plant Names:
O. H. Ger. wege-trat centenodia; umbi-trat serpinacia; ana-tret proserpinaca.
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  • un-fortredde, n.