Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plant of the genus Sagina, which consists of small matted or tufted herbs of both hemispheres, with threadlike or awl-shaped leaves, and minute flowers. These plants were once regarded as a remedy for the eye-disease called pearl. Also
pearlweed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
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- noun Any of several
flowering plants , of the genusSagina , that have flowers the shape and size of smallpearls .
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- noun any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
Etymologies
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Examples
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The major recent invasion there by procumbent pearlwort required an eradication program during 1999-2000 and the weed will need monitoring and containment for several years.
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Only four alien species are widespread on the island, but the integrity of the ecosystem has recently been threatened by the invasion of an alien groundcover, procumbent pearlwort Sagina procumbens.
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A hypertufa trough planter with leptinella, pearlwort and a native fern, polypody.
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I have pearlwort and also rue, another protective herb.
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Sagina procumbens , pearlwort, is said to be a protective herb in case the fairies decided to carry away a member of the family in days of yore.
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That small mossy circle would be thick with flowers, not one of them more than an inch high and some barely a centimetre – speedwell and forget-me-not, pearlwort and white flax, stork's-bill, cranesbill and valerianella, several minute purple vetches, and, best of all, a tiny pure-white saxifrage with scarlet leaves and stem.
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