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    ARIOCARPUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texasplay

    Synonyms:

    Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Ariocarpus"):

    Ariocarpus fissuratus; living rock (usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States)

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

    Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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