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RED MAIDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States
Synonyms:
Calandrinia ciliata; red maids; redmaids
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("red maids" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("red maids" is a member of...):
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)