Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various plants having star-shaped flowers or flower heads, as the aster or the stitchwort.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any plant of the genus Stellaria, the species of which have white starry flowers; chickweed. See cut under Stellaria.
- n. Any species of the genus Aster, the name alluding to the stellate rays of the heads. Specifically, in England, A. Tripolium, the sea-starwort, a salt-marsh species. The Italian starwort is A. Amellus, of central and southern Europe.
- n. The genus Callitriche, more properly water-starwort. Also star-grass.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several unrelated plants that have a star-shaped flowers or leaves, but especially members of the genus Stellaria
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any plant of the genus Aster. See aster.
- n. A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
Examples
“Aquatic plants common to limestone spring streams such as watercress and water-starwort provide cover for trout.”
“The association says prices of traditional medicines, including red ginseng and false starwort, have surged since 2010, partly because of speculators.”
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“Found here is the quite rare autumnal water starwort Callitriche hermaphroditica.”
“It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.”
“For six years thou mayst neither speak nor laugh, and in that time thou must sew together six little shirts of starwort for us.”
“Next morning she went out and gathered starwort and began to sew.”
“It was only a big dock; but you know the dragon fly had never seen any but little water trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.”
“Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.”
“In streams some of the best plants are water-crowfoot, water-starwort, and the great water moss.”
“Instead of casing itself with tiny sticks and pebbles and sojourning at the bottom, as Nature ordained, it had put on a gaudy livery of starwort leaves.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starwort’.
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Worts and all
I have in mind the worts associated with a green thumb rather than a green beer - but as you can see by the name, I'll accept anything you have to offer.
butterwort, spiderwort, quillwort, woundwort, nipplewort, bellwort, liverwort, milkwort, water pennywort, navelwort, toothwort, wort and 116 more...
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The Worts
Maybe I'm just hallucinating that there isn't a list for this botanical category yet...
mugwort, starwort, stitchwort, woundwort, pondwort, sweetwort, liverwort, spleenwort, toothwort, lungwort, adderwort, worrywort and 9 more...
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Stars
star, gold star, superstar, Star Wars, Star Trek, star chart, five-pointed star, six-pointed star, eight-pointed star, Star Jones, Starbuck, Starbucks and 47 more...
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