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Pearlwort
Any of several flowering plants that have flowers the shape and size of small pearls:
📖 Definitions of "Pearlwort"
noun
- 1
Any of several flowering plants that have flowers the shape and size of small pearls:
- 2
In genus Sagina,
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In genus Colobanthus
🔄 Synonyms of "Pearlwort"
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| Word | Definition |
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| pearlweednoun | any of various low-growing plants of the genus sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pearlwort"
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| Word | Definition |
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| pearlweednoun | any of various low-growing plants of the genus sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls |
| sealwortnoun | Synonym of Solomon's seal. |
| string of pearlsnoun | The flowering plant Curio rowleyanus (syn. Senecio rowleyanus). |
| breakstonenoun | Saxifrage (Saxifraga spp.) |
| pearlwort spurreynoun | The plant Spergula morisonii. |
| pipewortnoun | Any of several aquatic plants of the genus Eriocaulon. |
| ribbonweednoun | Any of various marine and freshwater flowering plants: |
| pickleweednoun | Any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae). |
| bellwortnoun | Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Uvularia, that have yellow, bell-shaped flowers. |
| pondwortnoun | A submerged aquatic plant native to Europe and northwestern Asia (Stratiotes aloides). |
| pennywortnoun | Any of several not closely related plants around the world, generally with round leaves of about the shape and size of a penny. |
| pearl mossnoun | Irish moss |
| pilewortnoun | Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria), lesser celandine, a plant in the buttercup family. |
| pillwortnoun | Any plant of the genus Pilularia of small aquatic ferns. The sporangia are borne in spherical sporocarps ("pills") which form in the axils of leaves. |
| coral plantnoun | Any of several flowering plants: |
| pearl grassnoun | Micranthemum micranthemoides (syn. Hemianthus micranthemoides) |
| purplewortnoun | Any of various plants of the genus Trifolium. |
| pearly everlastingnoun | Any of the genus Anaphalis of flowering plants. |
| antarctic pearlwortnoun | Colobanthus quitensis, a flowering plant found in the Antarctic, with yellow flowers and a cushion-like growth habit that gives it a mossy appearance. |
| saltwortnoun | Certain plants of various genera that grow in dry, alkali soils, including the following: |
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- antarcticpearlwort
- andpearlwort
- thepearlwort
- procumbentpearlwort
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