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Definition of Spergula arvensis
1. Noun. Small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Spergula, Spergula
Generic synonyms: Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spergula Arvensis
Literary usage of Spergula arvensis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United States: A Graphic History by Louis Morton Hacker, Rudolf Modley, George Rogers Taylor (1891)
"Stellaria media (chickweed) is among the most persistent of summer weeds in
cultivated vineyards and orchards; while in the spring spergula arvensis ..."
2. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"Scotch Lake, NB spergula arvensis, L. In Rhodora for August, 1905, Mr. ML Fernald
notes the occurrence of Spergula saliva, ..."
3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"The seeds of common spurrey (spergula arvensis L.) often occur in linseed-cake
and other ... Spurrey (spergula arvensis). Seeds natural size and enlarged. ..."
4. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Habit and stature of spergula arvensis L. but a more delicate pi. in all its parts,
... At once distinguishable from spergula arvensis L. by the constantly ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"spergula arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 440. 1753. Fig. 1794. Slender, glabrous or sparingly
pubescent, branching at or near the base, erect or ascending, 6'-18' high. ..."
6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Two or three species, natives of the Old World. The following is widely distributed
as a weed. i. spergula arvensis L. Spurry. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(2) spergula arvensis, L.—Ches. The prefix toad denotes that it is a spurious
kind—Linaria vulgaris, when not in flower, resembling true flax; ..."
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