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CARNATION FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
Synonyms:
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carnation family" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "carnation family"):
genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)
genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)
genus Spergularia; Spergularia (chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry)
genus Spergula; Spergula (small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry)
genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)
genus Scleranthus; Scleranthus (small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel)
genus Saponaria; Saponaria (mostly perennial Old World herbs)
genus Sagina; Sagina (small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions)
genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis (perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)
genus Paronychia; Paronychia (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)
genus Moehringia; Moehringia (low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers)
genus Minuartia; Minuartia (mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts)
genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)
genus Illecebrum; Illecebrum (one species: coral necklace)
genus Hernaria; Hernaria (low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves)
genus Gypsophila; Gypsophila (Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers)
genus Drypis (one species)
Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)
Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)
Arenaria; genus Arenaria (sandworts)
Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)
caryophyllaceous plant (a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae)
Holonyms ("carnation family" is a member of...):
Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)
