Arenaria, a Latin word meaning
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of s ...
-loving (or
psammophilic), may refer to:
Genera
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''Arenaria'' (bird), the turnstones, a bird genus of the family Scolopacidae
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''Arenaria'' (plant), the sandworts, a plant genus of the family Caryophyllaceae
Species
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Phengaris alcon arenaria
The Dutch Alcon blue (''Phengaris alcon arenaria'') was a subspecies of the Alcon blue butterfly (''Phengaris alcon''). There is not much known about this subspecies, but it has always been very rare. It was endemic to the Netherlands, where two ...
'', the Dutch alcon blue, an extinct subspecies of the alcon blue butterfly that was endemic to the Netherlands
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Meloidogyne arenaria thamesi'', a synonym for ''Meloidogyne thamesi'', the Thames' root-knot nematode, a plant-pathogenic nematode species
See also
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Arenarium
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Arenarius (disambiguation)
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