Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology:
- noun A disused specific name of several shore-birds or limicoline species of Scolopacidæ, as the redshank, Totanus calidris.
- noun A generic name of the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres.
- noun A generic name of the sanderling, Calidris arenaria.
- noun The specific name of the same. Linnœus, 1758, and most modern writers.
- noun A genus of bivalve mollusks, of the family Tellinidœ: synonymous with Scrobicularia.
- noun In botany, an unimportant genus of low herbs, of the natural order Caryophyllaceœ, allied to the chickweeds; the sandworts.
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- noun turnstones
- noun sandworts
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Examples
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The mobile outer dunes are sparsely vegetated with marram grass Ammophila arenaria, and camarina Corema album, with buckthorn-juniper Rhamno-Juniperetum macrocarpas communities The dry dunes inland have Rhamno-Juniperetum sophora communities.
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Introduced weeds such as gorse (Ulex europaeus), Chilean guava (Ugni molinae), and marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) are all problematic as well.
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Artemisia arenaria and Agropyron fragile predominate on small sandy massifs.
Kazakh semi-desert 2008
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Marram (Ammophilia arenaria) is a serious weed problem on the coastal dunes and Canadian pondweed (Elodea canadensis) is problematic in freshwater ecosystems.
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Opuntia arenaria (Opuntia polyacantha v. arenaria)
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That the _arenaria_ were considered as burying places in the time of
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The sand-pit roads, or _arenaria_, ran for miles parallel to the high roads, and were probably used by the carters in preference to the open roads in hot weather, as they are always cool.
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But the cultivation of the sand-rush, _arundo arenaria_, has done what the other "devises" failed to do; and the rushy towans have now provided an ideal golf-course, which prospers though the little town is somnolent.
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Psamma (Ammophila) arenaria, Tussilago, Farfara, and Asperula odorata, multiply very readily by means of stolons; or others, such as Cirsium arvense, and Sonchus arvensis, produce buds from their roots; or yet others produce numerous seeds which are easily dispersed and may remain for a long time capable of germinating, as is the case with Calluna,
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Their tomb was in fact in a disused sandpit (arenaria) near this catacomb.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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