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CORN SPURRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corn spurry mean?
• CORN SPURRY (noun)
The noun CORN SPURRY has 1 sense:
1. small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
Familiarity information: CORN SPURRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
corn spurrey; corn spurry; Spergula arvensis
Hypernyms ("corn spurry" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("corn spurry" is a member of...):
genus Spergula; Spergula (small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry)
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