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Webster 1913 Edition


Knapbottle

Knap′botˊtle

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
The bladder campion (
Silene inflata
).

Webster 1828 Edition


Knapbottle

KNAP'BOTTLE

,
Noun.
nap'bottle. A plant.

Definition 2024


knapbottle

knapbottle

English

Noun

knapbottle (uncountable)

  1. Bladder campion.
    • 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants:
      It is accounted a kinde of Lychnis by most of the best Herbalists, and therefore Bauhinum nameth it Lychnis Sylvestrus que Ben Album vulgo: some with us call it Knapbottle, and others Spatting or Frothy Poppy.