sandwort

/sand-wurt, -wawrt/US // ˈsændˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt //UK // (ˈsændˌwɜːt) //

沙草,沙蒿,沙棘,沙虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.

Here a few grass-blades, there a tiny plant of Sandwort, possibly a Rock Bedstraw, begin to root themselves in the moss.
Pistil of a Sandwort, with vertical and transverse section of the ovary: free central placenta.
Perhaps the commonest of all is the sea-spurry sandwort, which hangs its little blossoms in trailing tufts from the cliff-sides.
How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place!