SPERGULA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry

Synonyms:

genus Spergula; Spergula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Spergula"):

corn spurrey; corn spurry; Spergula arvensis (small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers)

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

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