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    TALINUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Talinum; Talinum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "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 ("Talinum" is a member of...):

    family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)

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