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SPERGULARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry
Synonyms:
genus Spergularia; Spergularia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Spergularia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Spergularia"):
sand spurry; sea spurry; Spergularia rubra (prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America)
Holonyms ("Spergularia" 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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