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ARIOCARPUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas
Synonyms:
Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ariocarpus" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Ariocarpus"):
Ariocarpus fissuratus; living rock (usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("Ariocarpus" is a member of...):
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)
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