knosp

Compare German knospe (“bud”), English knop, knar.

• IPA^(key): /nɒsp/
• Rhymes: -ɒsp

knosp (plural knosps)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of knop (“a knob”).
   • 1818, Henry Hart Milman, Samor, the Lord of The Bright City:

     The gem-knosp'd diadem

2. The unopened bud of a flower.

• “knosp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• knops, ponks, sponk