They scoff at Hermia, calling her 'dwarf and minimus' and 'hindering knotgrass'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

The hedgehog footed through the knotgrass slowly, grubbing with his snout to right and left of him.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

"Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed, and knotgrass," she murmured, running her finger down the list of ingredients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]

Leonoa had survived by a blade-thin chance, and even so, she lay four days in a stupor, waking for an evening before lapsing into bone fever, its delirious contortions permanently thwarting her spine's straightness, lengthening one arm and legs, and throwing the plates of her skull awry, gnarling her like a knotgrass doll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat Rambo] Reference

Some weeds, particularly knotgrass, are reaching frightening sizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference

Japanese knotgrass has taken over England's suburbs but seems unable to penetrate its pristine natural parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

However, open canopies are encouraging fathen, cleavers and knotgrass revivals, so over-spraying looks like it will be required on some fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference

The common knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare) grows most luxuriantly, single plants covering a space 4 or 5 feet in diameter, and sending their roots 3 or 4 feet deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Mabey's book is a series of meditations, in good old-fashioned discursive essay form, in which selected stir-crazy botanical buccaneers like burdock, knotgrass or ground elder assume a positively shamanistic ascendancy over all we create or imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The argument in favour of this view is now much stronger than when he wrote; for not only have we reason to believe that most of these wind-fertilised flowers are degraded forms of flowers which have once been insect fertilised, but we have abundant evidence that whenever insect agency becomes comparatively ineffective, the colours of the flowers become less bright, their size and beauty diminish, till they are reduced to such small, greenish, inconspicuous flowers as those of the rupture-wort (Herniaria glabra), the knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare), or the cleistogamic flowers of the violet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Leech, lacewings, knotgrass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference