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单词 stitchwort
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Definition of stitchwort in English:

stitchwort

noun ˈstɪtʃwəːt
  • A straggling European plant of the pink family with a slender stem and white starry flowers. It was formerly thought to cure a stitch in the side.

    Genus Stellaria, family Caryophyllaceae: several species, in particular greater stitchwort (S. holostea)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ground flora species of the semi natural woodlands include: wood anemone, lesser celendine, stitchworts, the tangy, lemon tasting wood sorrel, primrose, violet, devils bit scabious and speedwells.
    • Early summer offers a profusion of wild flowers; the pinks, blues and whites of campions, bluebells and stitchworts are matched by the yellow expanses of meadow buttercups and dandelions.
    • Lesser stitchwort, Stellaia graminea, has tiny white flowers with deeply divided petals while red campion, Silene dioica, is much more pink than red.
    • Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side.
    • Verges were yellow and white with celandine and stitchwort.
    • A potion of stitchwort and acorns prepared in wine was a well-used remedy.
    • If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
    • It can be distinguished from other stitchworts by the roughness of the edges of the leaves and stems.
    • Lesser stitchwort is often all but obscured in the grassy slopes and drier meadows it tends to prefer.
    • Vernal stitchwort can be use in front borders and rock gardens.
    • Busy brown rivers, carpets of wood anemones, dog violets, stitchworts, cuckoo flowers and primroses can all be enjoyed without the attention of the midge.
    • The early golden ‘stars and suns’ of lesser celandine and dandelion are followed by blackthorn blossom, stitchworts, primroses, violets and early purple orchids.
    • ‘Dead Man's Bones’ is the folk name given to the herb Greater stitchwort, a perennial plant found in damp, shady places throughout Europe.
    • Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
    • Hedgerows are a blaze with the blackthorn blossom, whose subtle creamy shade of white is nicely contrasted with the much more pure brilliant white of the greater stitchworts and mouse ear blooms which are flowering along side these shrubs in many places.
    • It supports a tremendous variety of flowers including St John's wort, orchids, stitchworts and bugle.
    • Members of the Pink family include a number of annuals, biennials, or perennials, including corn spurry, chickweeds and stitchworts (Stellaria spp. and Cerastium spp.), bladder campion, pearlwort, and bouncingbet.
    • There are patches of wood-sorrel, wood anemone and greater stitchwort in the ground layer; a wide variety of fungi appear in autumn.
    • Great wood-rush Luzula sylvatica is locally dominant in the woodland, and the characteristic greater stitchwort Stellaria holostea is found in more open patches.
    • The show of spring flowers, in particular bluebells, yellow archangel and stitchworts, is not to be missed.
 
 

Definition of stitchwort in US English:

stitchwort

noun
  • A straggling plant of the pink family with a slender stem and white starry flowers. It was formerly thought to cure a stitch in the side.

    Genus Stellaria, family Caryophyllaceae: several species, in particular greater stitchwort (S. holostea) and lesser stitchwort (S. graminea)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Vernal stitchwort can be use in front borders and rock gardens.
    • It can be distinguished from other stitchworts by the roughness of the edges of the leaves and stems.
    • If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
    • It supports a tremendous variety of flowers including St John's wort, orchids, stitchworts and bugle.
    • A potion of stitchwort and acorns prepared in wine was a well-used remedy.
    • Verges were yellow and white with celandine and stitchwort.
    • The show of spring flowers, in particular bluebells, yellow archangel and stitchworts, is not to be missed.
    • The early golden ‘stars and suns’ of lesser celandine and dandelion are followed by blackthorn blossom, stitchworts, primroses, violets and early purple orchids.
    • Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side.
    • Ground flora species of the semi natural woodlands include: wood anemone, lesser celendine, stitchworts, the tangy, lemon tasting wood sorrel, primrose, violet, devils bit scabious and speedwells.
    • Great wood-rush Luzula sylvatica is locally dominant in the woodland, and the characteristic greater stitchwort Stellaria holostea is found in more open patches.
    • Lesser stitchwort, Stellaia graminea, has tiny white flowers with deeply divided petals while red campion, Silene dioica, is much more pink than red.
    • Busy brown rivers, carpets of wood anemones, dog violets, stitchworts, cuckoo flowers and primroses can all be enjoyed without the attention of the midge.
    • Hedgerows are a blaze with the blackthorn blossom, whose subtle creamy shade of white is nicely contrasted with the much more pure brilliant white of the greater stitchworts and mouse ear blooms which are flowering along side these shrubs in many places.
    • Members of the Pink family include a number of annuals, biennials, or perennials, including corn spurry, chickweeds and stitchworts (Stellaria spp. and Cerastium spp.), bladder campion, pearlwort, and bouncingbet.
    • ‘Dead Man's Bones’ is the folk name given to the herb Greater stitchwort, a perennial plant found in damp, shady places throughout Europe.
    • Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
    • Lesser stitchwort is often all but obscured in the grassy slopes and drier meadows it tends to prefer.
    • Early summer offers a profusion of wild flowers; the pinks, blues and whites of campions, bluebells and stitchworts are matched by the yellow expanses of meadow buttercups and dandelions.
    • There are patches of wood-sorrel, wood anemone and greater stitchwort in the ground layer; a wide variety of fungi appear in autumn.
 
 
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