English Explanatory Dictionary

waterdock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a species of perennial herbaceous plants in the genus Rumex native to fens and freshwater banks of Europe and Western Asia.

Word forms

waterdock waterdocks water-dock water dock

Etymology

From water + dock. Compare Old English ēa-docce (“Rumex aquaticus”, literally “water-dock”).

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