NOUN
- low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
How To Use starwort In A Sentence
- When it grows on mud in low-water conditions, the leaves of water starwort are oblong.
- Grass, milfoil, water crowfoot, hornwort, starwort, horsetail, and a dozen other delicate plants, form one tangled forest, denser than those of the Amazon, and more densely peopled likewise. Prose Idylls, New and Old
- Fully aquatic vascular plants, such as starworts, colonize shallow water, and mosses and algae extend into deep water.
- In the last week, the Earth had been generous in sending forth dock and succory and starwort and lamb's quarters.
- Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed. Outdoor Sports and Games
- As the reeds and sedges have softened the banks, so water weeds, mostly starwort and ranunculus, have softened the bed. Times, Sunday Times
- River water-crowfoot, water starworts, water cress and lesser and greater pond sedge.
- The mountain starwort is a small, slender, rather delicate perennial that is usually less than eighteen inches in height.
- Young leaves of common starwort are edible, raw or cooked as a potherb.
- Being sheltered here, chest-deep behind this huge bed of starwort, is like standing in an aquarium. Times, Sunday Times
