simple past tense of get one's shorts in a knot

Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and inconspicuous flowers

A large, herbaceous perennial plant, Fallopia japonica, native to Asia; it is a highly invasive colonizer outside of its native territory.

Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots. / Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly. / Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.

plural of knothole

plural of knotweed

In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering through when they occur in fences. / (Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball.

comparative form of knotty: more knotty

superlative form of knotty: most knotty

An annual plant, Polygonum aviculare, found in fields and wasteland / Paspalum distichum, a weedy perennial grass of wet areas