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UK
/pˈætʃɪsˌændɹɐ/
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[ US /ˌpætʃɪˈsændɹə/ ]
[ US /ˌpætʃɪˈsændɹə/ ]
NOUN
- any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover
How To Use pachysandra In A Sentence
- We must do something about the potato vine tangled in the pachysandra.
- So I hacked that all down and hauled it away, cleaned up about ten years of pine needles, repositioned the feeders, and then went and bought a couple trays of pachysandra, which is a nice ground cover, works really well in acidic soil, and is native to the aimai Balloon Juice
- At the base of a tree, for example, you might have better luck with wood chips or shade-loving ornamental plants like ivy, periwinkle, or pachysandra.
- We burned you up (though you mentioned the River); the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra. Not from the self but from the Other
- Once I thought I got close and I almost died - and it was just a hose moving through some patch of pachysandra. Manhattan Meets Grimm In Book Of 'Modern Fairies'
- Growing up in Boston, Charlie had met any number of these short, plucky, velvet-eyed ladies; they were as common in these parts as pachysandra and chrysanthemums. Three Stages of Amazement
- There's a dark patch of pachysandra that grows by the thin line of trees that separates our yard from the neighbors. Wind
- Restrict the use of groundcover, such as pachysandra in areas frequented by family and roaming pets.
- If you did have shade in the garden, you certainly did not extol it, you just quietly covered the area with ivy or pachysandra.
- They might remind you of mayapple or of pachysandra.