Definitions for sandwort

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sandwort sand·wort

Spelling: [sand-wurt, -wawrt]

IPA: /ˈsændˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt/

Sandwort is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in sandwort (adnorstw).

Definitions for sandwort

noun

1. 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.

Origin of sandwort

First recorded in 1590-1600; sand + wort²

Examples for sandwort

How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place!

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.