Arenaria
- noun
- /ˌɛrɪˈnɛəriə/
- Specialized
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- In the rocky garden, the Arenaria added a splash of color with its delicate pink flowers.
Examples
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The small Arenaria plants bloomed brightly in the sandy soil of the coastal dunes.
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Visitors admired the Arenaria growing in the sandy areas of the nature reserve.
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Here, European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria), introduced to stabilize inlet shorelines, spread rapidly and created a higher, more linear, better-vegetated foredune than existed previously.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
A low plant with small white flowers that grows in sandy or rocky places
Compounds
- Specialized
A grass-like plant that grows in sand near the sea and helps hold sand on dunes
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A small, low flowering plant that forms soft round clumps on cold mountain and northern tundra slopes
- Specialized
A shore bird that breeds in the Arctic and winters in South America or Australia
- Specialized
A shorebird with a black head and mottled brown feathers that lives on the Pacific coast of North America
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A low plant with thick leaves that store water that grows on sandy shores and has small single flowers
- Specialized
A small low wild plant with tiny white flowers that grows close to the ground
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A dune grass that grows on Pacific beaches to hold sand and stop erosion
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A flowering plant with unusual flowers and seed pods that grows in dry places
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An edible clam with a thin oval shell that lives on coasts and is called the soft-shell clam
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arenaria comes from the Latin arena 'sand' and the ending -aria 'connected to'. It names small plants that often grow in sandy or rocky ground, so the word reminds us they are 'sand plants' that like dry, sandy places.
