sandwort

1. 1.

   loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe

   SynonymsMoehringia mucosa

   Broaderflower

   Part ofMoehringia
2. 2.

   low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers

   SynonymsMoehringia lateriflora

   Broaderflower

   Part ofMoehringia
3. 3.

   low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens

   Broaderflower

   Narrowermountain sandwortpine-barren sandwortseabeach sandwortrock sandwortthyme-leaved sandwort

   Part ofArenaria

Other forms of sandwort

plural

sandworts·

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.

Questions about sandwort

What does sandwort mean?

sandwort means "loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sandwort?

sandwort has 2 syllables: san-dwort. The stress falls on "san".

What is another word for sandwort?

Close synonyms include Moehringia mucosa, Moehringia lateriflora. 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 sandwort a common word?

sandwort is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.