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Pearlwort

Any of several flowering plants that have flowers the shape and size of small pearls:

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  1. 1

    Any of several flowering plants that have flowers the shape and size of small pearls:

  2. 2

    In genus Sagina,

  3. 3

    In genus Colobanthus

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pearlweednounany of various low-growing plants of the genus sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls

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pearlweednounany of various low-growing plants of the genus sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
sealwortnounSynonym of Solomon's seal.
string of pearlsnounThe flowering plant Curio rowleyanus (syn. Senecio rowleyanus).
breakstonenounSaxifrage (Saxifraga spp.)
pearlwort spurreynounThe plant Spergula morisonii.
pipewortnounAny of several aquatic plants of the genus Eriocaulon.
ribbonweednounAny of various marine and freshwater flowering plants:
pickleweednounAny flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae).
bellwortnounAny of several perennial plants, of the genus Uvularia, that have yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
pondwortnounA submerged aquatic plant native to Europe and northwestern Asia (Stratiotes aloides).
pennywortnounAny of several not closely related plants around the world, generally with round leaves of about the shape and size of a penny.
pearl mossnounIrish moss
pilewortnounFicaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria), lesser celandine, a plant in the buttercup family.
pillwortnounAny 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 plantnounAny of several flowering plants:
pearl grassnounMicranthemum micranthemoides (syn. Hemianthus micranthemoides)
purplewortnounAny of various plants of the genus Trifolium.
pearly everlastingnounAny of the genus Anaphalis of flowering plants.
antarctic pearlwortnounColobanthus quitensis, a flowering plant found in the Antarctic, with yellow flowers and a cushion-like growth habit that gives it a mossy appearance.
saltwortnounCertain plants of various genera that grow in dry, alkali soils, including the following:

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