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SANDWORT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sandwort" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandwort"):
Arenaria groenlandica; mountain daisy; mountain sandwort; mountain starwort (boreal or alpine sandwort)
Arenaria caroliniana; longroot; pine-barren sandwort (deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States)
Arenaria peploides; seabeach sandwort (perennial succulent herb with small solitary axillary or terminal flowers)
Arenaria stricta; rock sandwort (low perennial tufted plant of southeastern North America)
Arenaria serpyllifolia; thyme-leaved sandwort (Eurasian annual sprawling plant naturalized throughout North America)
Holonyms ("sandwort" is a member of...):
Arenaria; genus Arenaria (sandworts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers
Synonyms:
Moehringia lateriflora; sandwort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sandwort" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("sandwort" 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)
Sense 3
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:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sandwort" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("sandwort" 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)
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