GENUS MINUARTIA

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Meaning:

Mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts

Synonyms:

genus Minuartia; Minuartia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("genus Minuartia" is a member of...):

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))