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- noun Plural form of
starwort .
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Examples
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Miral would pluck wildflowers with her pudgy fingers and glow with delight when she remembered their names from one week to the next: buttercups (buttewrcus), starworts (stawts), and blue-eyed Marys (boo-wy mays).
Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009
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Miral would pluck wildflowers with her pudgy fingers and glow with delight when she remembered their names from one week to the next: buttercups (buttewrcus), starworts (stawts), and blue-eyed Marys (boo-wy mays).
Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009
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The water starworts (_Callitriche_), not uncommon in stagnant water, represent the family _Callitrichaceæ_, and the box (_Buxus_) is the type of the _Buxaceæ_.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Whilst it is nearly related to, and much resembles, the starworts or Michaelmas daises, it far exceeds in beauty the best of them, with only a third of their ungainly length of stem.
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In the gardens her hopeful bees, cheated into thoughts of summer, droned round the pale mauves and purples of what was left of starworts.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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Here and there float upon the surface the round leaves and delicate white blossoms of the frogbit, together with lilies, pondweeds, and water starworts.
Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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"old-fashioned" kinds, either in the borders or as cut blooms, they are decidedly telling; for blending with other Composites it has its value mainly from the fact that blues are rare in September; the China asters are too short in the stalk for cutting purposes, and many of the tall perennial starworts are neither bright nor well disposed.
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