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GENUS TALINUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
Synonyms:
genus Talinum; Talinum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Talinum" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Talinum"):
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots)
narrow-leaved flame flower; Talinum augustissimum (similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States)
pigmy talinum; Talinum brevifolium (low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States)
rock pink; Talinum calycinum (pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States)
spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens (low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Talinum" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
