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CALANDRINIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers
Synonyms:
Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Calandrinia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Calandrinia"):
rock purslane (a plant of the genus Calandrinia)
Calandrinia ciliata; red maids; redmaids (succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("Calandrinia" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
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