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CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("caryophylloid dicot genus" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caryophylloid dicot genus"):
genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus (tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit)
genus Hylocereus; Hylocereus (genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers)
genus Hatiora; Hatiora (small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)
genus Harrisia; Harrisia (genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America)
genus Gymnocalycium; Gymnocalycium (large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles)
Ferocactus; genus Ferocactus (genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti)
genus Epiphyllum (small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti)
Echinocereus; genus Echinocereus (large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States)
genus Echinocactus (globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil)
genus Coryphantha (mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria)
Cereus; genus Cereus (genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white)
Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea (caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro)
Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)
Aporocactus; genus Aporocactus (small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico)
Acanthocereus; genus Acanthocereus (mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region)
genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)
genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis (four o'clocks)
Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillea (ornamental tropical woody vines)
Allionia; genus Allionia (small genus of chiefly American herbs)
Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)
genus Nyctaginia; Nyctaginia (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species)
genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)
genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)
genus Spraguea; Spraguea (small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes)
genus Montia; Montia (small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia)
genus Lewisia; Lewisia (genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers)
Claytonia; genus Claytonia (genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes)
Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia (large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers)
genus Portulaca (genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs)
genus Trichostigma; Trichostigma (a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America)
genus Rivina; Rivina (small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America)
Ercilla; genus Ercilla (a genus of evergreen climbers)
Agdestis; genus Agdestis (a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates)
genus Phytolacca; Phytolacca (type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed)
genus Zygocactus; Zygocactus (small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits)
genus Selenicereus; Selenicereus (mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night)
genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera (South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)
genus Rhipsalis; Rhipsalis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits)
genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia (genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers)
genus Opuntia; Opuntia (large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears)
genus Pediocactus; Pediocactus (low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America)
genus Myrtillocactus; Myrtillocactus (small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America)
genus Melocactus; Melocactus (genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean)
genus Mammillaria (large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface)
genus Lophophora; Lophophora (two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal)
Dorotheanthus; genus Dorotheanthus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus)
Carpobrotus; genus Carpobrotus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus)
genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)
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)
genus Sarcobatus; Sarcobatus (one species: greasewood)
genus Salsola; Salsola (chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts)
genus Salicornia; Salicornia (glassworts)
genus Halogeton; Cycloloma; genus Cycloloma (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae)
Beta; genus Beta (beets)
Bassia; genus Bassia; genus Kochia; Kochia (summer cypress)
Atriplex; genus Atriplex (orach; saltbush)
Chenopodium; genus Chenopodium (goosefoot; pigweed)
Batis; genus Batis (small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs)
genus Telanthera; Telanthera (used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera)
genus Iresine; Iresine (genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs)
genus Gomphrena; Gomphrena (genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia)
Froelichia; genus Froelichia (genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed)
Celosia; genus Celosia (annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa)
Alternanthera; genus Alternanthera (genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera)
Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus (large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs)
genus Tetragonia; Tetragonia (New Zealand spinach)
genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)
genus Molluga; Molluga (carpetweeds)
genus Mesembryanthemum; Mesembryanthemum (South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight)
genus Lithops (genus of stemless South African succulents)
Holonyms ("caryophylloid dicot genus" is a member of...):
Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)
