SAGINA

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Meaning:

Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions

Synonyms:

genus Sagina; Sagina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sagina" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Sagina"):

pearl-weed; pearlweed; pearlwort (any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls)

Holonyms ("Sagina" is a member of...):

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