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PURSLANE FAMILY

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("purslane family" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "purslane family"):

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 ("purslane family" is a member of...):

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

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