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MOEHRINGIA MUCOSA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
Synonyms:
Moehringia mucosa; sandwort
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Moehringia mucosa" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("Moehringia mucosa" is a member of...):
genus Moehringia; Moehringia (low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers)