Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts;
distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers;
[syn: Moehringia, genus Moehringia]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
genus Moehringia
n 1: low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and
Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from
members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled
rather than five-petaled flowers [syn: Moehringia, genus
Moehringia]