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PINK FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pink family mean? 

PINK FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PINK FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)play

  Familiarity information: PINK FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PINK FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family

Hypernyms ("pink family" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "pink family"):

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

genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)

genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)

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 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)

caryophyllaceous plant (a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae)

Holonyms ("pink family" is a member of...):

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)


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