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Definition of Starworts
1. starwort [n] - See also: starwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starworts
Literary usage of Starworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionaryby Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"All the starworts are propagated by parting their Roots ... to the Surface in
the Spring, as do all the Sorts of starworts. häuft tbe Nourishment from them, ..."
2. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... -starworts.) Small slender aquatic herbs, with opposite entire leaves, no
stipules and monoecious axillary flowers without perianth, but sometimes with ..."
3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"(\VATER-starworts.) Aquatic small annuals, with opposite entire leaves, and
solitary polygamous ... starworts."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(WATER-starworts.) Small elender aquatic herbs, with opposite entire leaves, no
stipules and monoecious axillary flowers without perianth, but sometimes ..."
5. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(WATER-starworts.) Small slender aquatic herbs, with opposite entire leaves, no
stipules and monoecious axillary flowers without perianth, but sometimes ..."
6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"There is a quiet beauty about the more select starworts, which is charming ...
For the most part starworts are regardless of cold or rain. ..."
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