CARPETWEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpetweed family mean? 

• CARPETWEED FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CARPETWEED FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPETWEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "carpetweed family"):

Carpobrotus; genus Carpobrotus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus)

Dorotheanthus; genus Dorotheanthus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus)

genus Lithops (genus of stemless South African succulents)

genus Mesembryanthemum; Mesembryanthemum (South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight)

genus Molluga; Molluga (carpetweeds)

genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)

genus Tetragonia; Tetragonia (New Zealand spinach)

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

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