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SPERGULARIA RUBRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spergularia rubra mean? 

SPERGULARIA RUBRA (noun)
  The noun SPERGULARIA RUBRA has 1 sense:

1. prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: SPERGULARIA RUBRA used as a noun is very rare.


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SPERGULARIA RUBRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sand spurry; sea spurry; Spergularia rubra

Hypernyms ("Spergularia rubra" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("Spergularia rubra" is a member of...):

genus Spergularia; Spergularia (chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry)


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