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    PORTULACACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americasplay

    Synonyms:

    family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Portulacaceae"):

    genus Portulaca (genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs)

    Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia (large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers)

    Claytonia; genus Claytonia (genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes)

    genus Lewisia; Lewisia (genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers)

    genus Montia; Montia (small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia)

    genus Spraguea; Spraguea (small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes)

    genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)

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

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

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