SANDWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandwort mean? 

• SANDWORT (noun)
  The noun SANDWORT has 3 senses:

1. loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe

2. low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers

3. low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens

  Familiarity information: SANDWORT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDWORT (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Moehringia mucosa; sandwort

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 2

Meaning:

Low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Moehringia lateriflora; sandwort

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:

Low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)