spiderwort

IPA: spˈaɪdɝwɝt

noun

  • A perennial plant of the Tradescantia genus, found in clumps in woodland and meadow.
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Examples of "spiderwort" in Sentences

  • Also check lobelia, spiderwort and pickerel weed.
  • _Tradescantia_ -- This is otherwise known as spiderwort, Wandering Jew,
  • It was peeling, and long pieces of paint hung down like the drooping leaves of a spiderwort.
  • The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless.
  • Maybe, he thought with a smile, this was some common, humble plant he tended'dandelion or catnip or spiderwort.
  • The spiderwort is a flower whose juice is used for painting the silks before they're masked with starch and then dyed.
  • But if you've never smelled the juice of a spiderwort … well, I was very glad at the end of the week to go back to boiling dyes once again.
  • Wetlands will reassert themselves, Muscatine vines, spiderwort and pickerel weed will overrun the golf courses, and panthers will dance again in the forests.
  • I also grow a silver-leafed version of the common green-leaf brunnera called Jack Frost, which is particularly amazing-looking when its bright blue flowers are blooming, and a variety of spiderwort (Tradescantia) called Sweet Kate, whose own blue flowers stand out against its unusual bright yellow leaves instead of the typical green ones.

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