MINUARTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Minuartia mean? 

• MINUARTIA (noun)
  The noun MINUARTIA has 1 sense:

1. mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts

  Familiarity information: MINUARTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINUARTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Minuartia; Minuartia

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

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

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))