spergularia

English Thesaurus

1. chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryophylloid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	sand spurry, sea spurry, spergularia rubra,
definition	:	prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	carnation family, caryophyllaceae, family caryophyllaceae, pink family,
definition	:	large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) (noun.plant)