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CLAYTONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes
Synonyms:
Claytonia; genus Claytonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Claytonia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Claytonia"):
Carolina spring beauty; Claytonia caroliniana (similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America)
Clatonia lanceolata; spring beauty (small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm)
Claytonia virginica; Virginia spring beauty (small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America)
Holonyms ("Claytonia" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
