Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse species of knotweed or jointweed, Polygonum Sachalinense, from the Russo-Japanese island of Saghalin, recently introduced into the United States as a forage-plant, but used chiefly for planting as a screen or cover in rough and waste places. It sends up shoots several feet high, bearing very large ovate-oblong leaves and axillary clusters of small greenish flowers.
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- noun A
coarse herb (Fallopia sachalinensis) which iscultivated in theU.S. forforage and fordecorative purposes.
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Examples
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Russelia juncea rutabaga rye-grass sacaline sage salad plants
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Very rough, hard, sterile, and stony banks may sometimes be covered with coltsfoot (_Tussilago Farfara_), sacaline, _Rubus cratoegifotius, _ comfrey, and various wild growths that persist in similar places in the neighborhood.
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The projecting planting on the left comprises about ten plants, of which 4 is exochorda, 6 is arundo or reed, at the back of which is a large clump of sacaline, and 7 is a variegated-leaved elder.
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It contains an exochorda, a reed, variegated elder, sacaline, variegated dogwood, tansy, and a young tree of wild crab.
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