Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypetalous plants of the order Caryophylleæ, the pink family, and of the tribe Alsineæ.
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- noun Any
herb of the genusSagina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
Etymologies
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Examples
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The drive, it seemed to the mature Augustine, was scornful pride (fastidium) and the nourishment of iniquity (sagina iniquitatis).
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I have had some success with scotch moss, sagina aurea.
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I think the gold is much tougher than the green sagina too, it can take more sun.
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I have found the golden scotch sagina to be hardier than the green irish moss sagina too.
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The bed of scotch moss, sagina aurea, is soft and would tickle the fancy of bare fairy toesies as they nestle down for a siesta.
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That sagina is a beautiful groundcover and grows well here.
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Hi Brenda, the sagina likes shade, I have found, and no competition or covering by the leaves of nearby plants.
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Adeo ut in dies paene singulos milites carnis distentiore sagina victitantes incultius, potusque aviditate correpti, humeris impositi transeuntium per plateas, ex publicis aedibus ..... ad sua diversoria portarentur.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Adeo ut in dies paene singulos milites carnis distentiore sagina victitantes incultius, potusque aviditate correpti, humeris impositi transeuntium per plateas, ex publicis aedibus ... .. ad sua diversoria portarentur.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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£138,820 to prepare for the eradication of mice and sagina procumbens, an invasive plant, from Gough Island, in the South Atlantic, where the only inhabitants are workers at a weather station;
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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