periwinkle

English Thesaurus

1. edible marine gastropod (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	seasnail,
definition	:	any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus littorina, littorina,
definition	:	type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles (noun.animal)

substance holonym	:	periwinkle, winkle,
definition	:	small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked (noun.food)

2. small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked (noun.food)

hypernym	:	seafood,
definition	:	edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc (noun.food)

substance meronym	:	periwinkle, winkle,
definition	:	edible marine gastropod (noun.animal)

3. commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	herb, herbaceous plant,
definition	:	a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	catharanthus, genus catharanthus,
definition	:	small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca (noun.plant)

4. chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	subshrub, suffrutex,
definition	:	low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	myrtle, vinca minor,
definition	:	widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	large periwinkle, vinca major,
definition	:	plant having variegated foliage and used for window boxes (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus vinca, vinca,
definition	:	periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials (noun.plant)