Knop
Knop (nop) , noun
[Old English knop, knoppe; compare Dutch knop, knoop, German knopf, Danish knap, knop, Swedish knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icelandic knappr, and English knap, n. Compare Knap, Knob.]
1.
A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
2.
(Architecture) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.
Collocations (1)
Knop sedge (Botany) , the bur reed (Sparganium); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels. — Prior