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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sandwort is a noun meaning "loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe". It carries 3 recorded senses.
loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers
low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sandwort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.