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GENUS PORTULACA

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Meaning:

Genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Portulaca" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Portulaca"):

portulaca (a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers)

common purslane; Portulaca oleracea; pussley; pussly; verdolagas (weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan)

Holonyms ("genus Portulaca" is a member of...):

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)

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