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ARENARIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turnstones

Synonyms:

Arenaria; genus Arenaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Arenaria" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Arenaria"):

turnstone (migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food)

Holonyms ("Arenaria" is a member of...):

Charadriidae; family Charadriidae (plover family)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sandworts

Synonyms:

Arenaria; genus Arenaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Arenaria" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Arenaria"):

sandwort (low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens)

Holonyms ("Arenaria" is a member of...):

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

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