sealark (selark)

1. A sandpiper of some kind, as the dunlin, the sanderling, etc.; also, the turnstone.-2. A ring-plover of some kind, as the ring-dotterel.-3. The sea-titling, An thus obscurus. See rock - pipit. [Local, Eng.] sea-lavender (sē'laven-dér), n. A plant of the genus Statice; most often, S. Limonium, in the United States called marsh - rosemary. The common species is a salt-marsh plant with radical leaves and a wiry stem, bearing at the top a panicle of extremely numerous small lavender-colored flowers. Several species are cultivated, the finest being S. latifolia, from Siberia, a plant similar in habit to the last. The flowers of the genus are of dry texture, and retain their color long after being cut.