MOEHRINGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moehringia mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOEHRINGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Moehringia; Moehringia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Moehringia"):

Moehringia lateriflora; sandwort (low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers)

Moehringia mucosa; sandwort (loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe)

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

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