starwort

IPA: stˈɑrwɝt

Any of several not closely related plants that have a star-shaped flowers or leaves, but especially members of the genus Stellaria.

Examples of "starwort" in Sentences

Next morning she went out and gathered starwort and began to sew.
This shallow, rocky bottomed pool has a fine colony of water starwort.
Found here is the quite rare autumnal water starwort Callitriche hermaphroditica.
In streams some of the best plants are water-crowfoot, water-starwort, and the great water moss.
Aquatic plants common to limestone spring streams such as watercress and water-starwort provide cover for trout.
For six years thou mayst neither speak nor laugh, and in that time thou must sew together six little shirts of starwort for us.
Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.
The association says prices of traditional medicines, including red ginseng and false starwort, have surged since 2010, partly because of speculators.
Instead of casing itself with tiny sticks and pebbles and sojourning at the bottom, as Nature ordained, it had put on a gaudy livery of starwort leaves.
It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.
It was only a big dock; but you know the dragon fly had never seen any but little water trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.