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Arenaria peploides

Arenaria peploides

9.9
A low plant with thick leaves that store water that grows on sandy shores and has small single flowers
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The flowers of Arenaria peploides are small and grow singly in leaf axils.

Examples

  • The creeping stems of Arenaria peploides help stabilize sandy shorelines.

  • Botanists surveyed the coastal dunes for populations of Arenaria peploides.

  • The Arenaria peploides thrives in sandy coastal areas.

  • Have you seen the Arenaria peploides blooming this spring?

  • The creeping stems of Arenaria peploides help stabilize sandy shorelines.

  • The flowers of Arenaria peploides are small and grow singly in leaf axils.

  • Have you seen the Arenaria peploides blooming this spring?

Synonyms

seabeach sandwort
vsArenaria peploides
9.5

A plant with thick leaves and small single flowers that lives for many years on sandy coasts

includes a widely used common name for the plant

Surface Forms

Arenaria peploides singular
Arenaria peploideses plural

Morphology

Arenaria + peploides

This is a Latin binomial name: the genus 'Arenaria' indicates a plant adapted to sandy soils so a learner who knows that constituent can infer it refers to a plant, but the species epithet 'peploides' is not transparent (no dictionary gloss) and the specific sense 'sea sandwort / coastal perennial succulent' cannot be derived from the parts. Because the name functions mainly as a taxonomic label with only partial compositional cues, it is only partially predictable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Arenaria peploides gets its name from words about sand and a small cloth. The first part, Arenaria, comes from Latin for 'sand', and peploides may come from a word for a loose cloth because the plant spreads like a little rug on the shore, so the name tells you it is a low, sand-loving coastal plant.