SPERGULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spergularia mean? 

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

1. chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPERGULARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spergularia; Spergularia

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Spergularia"):

sand spurry; sea spurry; Spergularia rubra (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)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))