spurry : Idioms & Phrases

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corn spurry

  • noun small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
    Spergula arvensis; corn spurrey.
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Sand spurry

  • noun 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
    sand spurry; Spergularia rubra.
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  • (Bot.), any low herb of the genus Lepigonum, mostly found in sandy places.
Webster 1913

sea spurry

  • noun 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
    sand spurry; Spergularia rubra.
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