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PIGMY TALINUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
Synonyms:
pigmy talinum; Talinum brevifolium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pigmy talinum" is a kind of...):
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots)
Holonyms ("pigmy talinum" is a member of...):
genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)
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