CALANDRINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calandrinia mean? 

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

1. large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALANDRINIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Calandrinia"):

rock purslane (a plant of the genus Calandrinia)

Calandrinia ciliata; red maids; redmaids (succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States)

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

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