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Noun: Moehringia
  1. Low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic Northern Hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petalled rather than five-petalled flowers
    - genus Moehringia

Type of: caryophylloid dicot genus

Part of: carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family

Encyclopedia: Moehringia