单词 | sandwort |
释义 | sandwort (once / 407563 pages) n WORD FAMILY sandwort: sandworts USAGE EXAMPLESLead mine spoil heaps often support a rare type of grassland dominated by spring sandwort and sheep's fescue. BBC(Jun 25, 2012) Pistil of a Sandwort, with vertical and transverse section of the ovary: free central placenta. Gray, Asa, The Elements of Botany—For Beginner...(2010) How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place! Torrey, Bradford, The Foot-path Way(2010) 1n loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe Syn|Hyper Moehringia mucosa flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms 2n low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers Syn|Hyper Moehringia lateriflora flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms 3n low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens Hypo|Hyper Arenaria groenlandica, mountain daisy, mountain sandwort, mountain starwort boreal or alpine sandwort Arenaria caroliniana, longroot, pine-barren sandwortdeep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States Arenaria peploides, seabeach sandwortperennial succulent herb with small solitary axillary or terminal flowers Arenaria stricta, rock sandwortlow perennial tufted plant of southeastern North America Arenaria serpyllifolia, thyme-leaved sandwortEurasian annual sprawling plant naturalized throughout North America flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
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