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Knop

Knop

1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button. Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. (ex. Xxv. 21)

2. Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; especially, the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; called also knob, and knosp.

(Science: botany) knop sedge, the bur reed (Sparganium); so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.

Origin: oe. Knop, knoppe; cf. D.knop, knoop, g. Knopf, dan. Knap, knop, Sw. Knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. Knappr, and E. Knap, cf. Knap, knob.


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... buried in Grant's Tomb?" The correct answer isn't all that easy to discover, I find. Apparently, there was a botanist named J. A. L. W. Knop who came up with the solution sometime in the 1860s. More than that, I cannot tell.

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by blcr11
Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:12 pm
 
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