ˈpearlwort
A book-name for the genus Sagina of caryophyllaceous plants.
| 1660 Ray Catal. Plantarum 151 Saxifraga Anglica Occidentalium..Pearlwort, Chickweed-Breakstone. 1787 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 215 Sagina... Chick⁓weed-Breakstone. Trailing Pearlwort. 1854 S. Thomson Wild Fl. (ed. 4) III. 186 Pearlworts, inconspicuous plants, with narrow leaves. |