minuartia

English Thesaurus

1. mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryophylloid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	carnation family, caryophyllaceae, family caryophyllaceae, pink family,
definition	:	large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) (noun.plant)