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GENUS 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 flowersplay

Synonyms:

Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Calandrinia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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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