corn spurry

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   small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers

   Synonymscorn spurreySpergula arvensis

   Broaderweed

   Part ofSpergula

Questions about corn spurry

What does corn spurry mean?

corn spurry means "small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers".

What is another word for corn spurry?

Close synonyms include corn spurrey, Spergula arvensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corn spurry a common word?

corn spurry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.