Definitions for sandworts

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sandworts sand·wort

Spelling: [sand-wurt, -wawrt]

IPA: /ˈsændˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt/

Sandworts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in sandworts (adnorsstw).

Definitions for sandworts

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 sandworts

First recorded in 1590-1600; sand + wort²

Examples for sandworts

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

Pistil of a sandwort, with vertical and transverse section of the ovary: free central placenta.

Here a few grass-blades, there a tiny plant of sandwort, possibly a Rock Bedstraw, begin to root themselves in the moss.