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. undefined

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.

noun. turnstones

noun. sandworts

"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."

bird genus  caryophylloid dicot genus  

Arenaria