noun
- a small flowering plant of the pink family with narrow leaves and tiny white or pink flowers
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The spurrey grew wild in the sandy soil of the field.
- Farmers sometimes consider spurrey a weed in their crops.
- The delicate white flowers of spurrey bloom in summer.
- Spurrey is often found growing along roadsides and in waste places.
- The botanist identified the small plant as spurrey by its characteristic narrow leaves.