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PRONUNCIATION OF LADY'S-THUMB

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LADY'S-THUMB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lady's-Thumb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LADY'S-THUMB

lady-in-waiting
lady-killer
lady-killing
lady´s bedstraw
lady´s finger
lady´s maid
lady´s man
lady´s mantle
lady´s-slipper
lady´s-smock
lady´s-tresses
ladybird
ladyboy
ladybug
ladyfied
ladyfies
ladyfinger
ladyfish
ladyfy
ladyhood

WORDS THAT END LIKE LADY'S-THUMB

bethumb
green thumb
hop-o´-my-thumb
miller´s thumb
Northumb
rhumb
rule of thumb
rule-of-thumb
thumb
Tom Thumb
under someone´s thumb

Synonyms and antonyms of lady's-thumb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lady's-thumb» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of lady's-thumb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lady's-thumb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lady's-thumb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

女式拇指
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Señora- pulgar
570 millions of speakers

English

lady´s-thumb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lady´s अंगूठे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

lady´s الإبهام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дамская - палец
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Senhora- thumb
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লেডি উপাধিধারী কোনো সম্ভ্রান্ত থাম্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

renouée persicaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lady´s-thumb
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Damenfaust
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lady´s親指
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lady´s - 엄지 손가락
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lady´s-thumb
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lady´s - ngón tay cái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lady´s-கட்டைவிரல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लेडीज-थंब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iyi anlaşan başparmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Vestiti -thumb
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Odzież - kciuk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дамська - палець
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lady´s -thumb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Παναγιας -thumb
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lady´s - duim
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Dagg -thumb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lady´s -thumb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lady's-thumb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LADY'S-THUMB»

The term «lady's-thumb» is used very little and occupies the 188.797 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LADY'S-THUMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lady's-thumb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LADY'S-THUMB»

Discover the use of lady's-thumb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lady's-thumb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Foraging New England, 2nd: Edible Wild Food and Medicinal ...
Lady's thumb responds well to a few drops ofcidervine— gar; salt and pepper are optional. Lady's thumb leaves lose bulk when cooked; use a bit more ofthe raw product than seems necessary, and the proportions should work out. lance ...
Tom Seymour, 2013
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Invasive Plants: A Guide to Identification, Impacts, and ...
I r l. s is? .1 Left: Lady's thumb has a purple "thumbprint” on the leaf. Right: Oriental lady's thumb has upright clusters of flowers. IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS The Polygonum spp. are all known for their swollen, jointed stems and ocreae, ...
Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman, Wallace Kaufman, 2013
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A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central ...
TIGHT PINK CLUSTERS, TINY FLOWERS Buckwheat Family (Polygonaceae) LADY'S-THUMB, REDLEG Alien Polygonum persicaria Smartweeds, Polygonum, are known by their tight, spikelike clusters of tiny pink (or whitish) flowers and ...
Roger Tory Peterson, Margaret McKenny, 1996
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Peterson First Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and ...
LADY'S.THUMB Buckwheat Family Smartweeds (there are a number of kindsl are known by their fight. spikelike clusters of tiny pink or whitish flowers and their "knotted" stems. with a papery sheath at each joint, Lady's.thumb has narrow ...
Roger Tory Peterson, 1998
5
At Home in Nature, a user's guide
Exchange Greens Mild Greens Mild Greens Greens Mild Greens Greens Other sorrels and cresses Flowers Greens Flowers, Fruit Mild Greens Ingredient(s) Hyssop, apple Sunflower, mustard, mixed greens Lady's thumb, chickweed Oak, lavar ...
Mary Choate and Aaron Brachfeld
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Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 ...
Lady's thumb Polygonum persicaria Also edible summer Habitat: disturbed sites, especially low wet ground, along roadsides, lakes, streams, ponds; widespread weed introduced from Europe. Identification: annual herb to 1 m (3.2 ft) high; ...
Thomas S. Elias, Peter A. Dykeman, 2009
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Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Badger Dairy Feed Gwinn's Dairy Feed Husted Molasses Feed. Quaker Dairy Molasses Feed., Sucrene Dairy Feed. Few lady's thumb Few yellow foxtail, wild buckwheat and false tlax Few wild buckwheat and green foxtail Few wild buckwheat ...
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911
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Bulletin - Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Daisy Dairy Feed Few lady's thumb Few yellow foxtail, wild buckwheat and false 11 ax Few wild buckwheat and green foxtail Few wild buckwheat Few yellow foxtail Wild buckwheat, mustard. yellow, fox tail, ragweed. pigweed and corn cockle ...
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911
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Bulletin
2777 I About 5 per cent, weed seeds including mustard, pigweed, persicaria, hone nettle, lady's thumb, corn cockle, ... and lady's thumb From 8 to 10 per cent weed seeds including lady's thumb, persicaria, pigweed, mustard 2018 From 5 to 10 ...
‎1906
10
All About Weeds
... Hearts-ease, Glandular persicary, Swamp persicary, etc. This species is often confused with a near cousin known as Lady's—thumb, Persicary, Spotted smartweed, Heart-weed, Oxheart, Spotted knotweed, Red Shanks, Lover's pride, etc.
Edwin R. Spencer, 2013

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