GENUS MONTIA

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Meaning:

Small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia

Synonyms:

genus Montia; Montia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Montia"):

Indian lettuce (a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves)

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

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)