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GENUS MOEHRINGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers
Synonyms:
genus Moehringia; Moehringia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Moehringia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Moehringia"):
Moehringia lateriflora; sandwort (low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers)
Moehringia mucosa; sandwort (loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe)
Holonyms ("genus Moehringia" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
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