spurrey noun. ['spʌri] Also spurry. L16.
[Dutch spurrie, sporie, speurie, prob. rel to medieval Latin spergula, whence German Spergel, Spörgel.]
1. More fully corn spurrey. A cornfield weed, Spergula arvensis, of the pink family, with small white flowers and fleshy linear leaves. L16.

2. With specifying word: any of various similar plants of or formerly included in the genus Spergula. Now usu. spec., any of several small pink-flowered plants constituting the genus Spergularia, esp. S. rubra (in full sand spurrey), of sandy or gravelly ground, and S. marina (in full lesser sea spurrey) and S. media (in full greater sea spurrey), both of salt-marshes. L18.

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