carnation family
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1. large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | caryophylloid dicot family, |
| definition | : | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus drypis, |
| definition | : | one species (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus hernaria, hernaria, |
| definition | : | low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lychnis, |
| definition | : | genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus minuartia, minuartia, |
| definition | : | mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus moehringia, moehringia, |
| definition | : | low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus paronychia, paronychia, |
| definition | : | low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus petrocoptis, petrocoptis, |
| definition | : | perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus sagina, sagina, |
| definition | : | small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus silene, |
| definition | : | large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus spergula, spergula, |
| definition | : | small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | caryophyllaceous, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | caryophyllaceous, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae (adj.pert) |
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