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    CARYOPHYLLACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)play

    Synonyms:

    carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Caryophyllaceae"):

    genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)

    genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)

    genus Spergularia; Spergularia (chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry)

    genus Spergula; Spergula (small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry)

    genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)

    genus Scleranthus; Scleranthus (small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel)

    genus Saponaria; Saponaria (mostly perennial Old World herbs)

    genus Sagina; Sagina (small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions)

    genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis (perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

    genus Paronychia; Paronychia (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)

    genus Moehringia; Moehringia (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)

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

    genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)

    genus Illecebrum; Illecebrum (one species: coral necklace)

    genus Hernaria; Hernaria (low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves)

    genus Gypsophila; Gypsophila (Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers)

    genus Drypis (one species)

    Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)

    Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)

    Arenaria; genus Arenaria (sandworts)

    Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)

    caryophyllaceous plant (a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae)

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

    Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)

    Derivation:

    caryophyllaceous (of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae)

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