GENUS ARENARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Arenaria mean? 

• GENUS ARENARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ARENARIA has 2 senses:

1. sandworts

2. turnstones

  Familiarity information: GENUS ARENARIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ARENARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sandworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arenaria; genus Arenaria

Hypernyms ("genus Arenaria" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Arenaria"):

sandwort (low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens)

Holonyms ("genus Arenaria" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turnstones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Arenaria; genus Arenaria

Hypernyms ("genus Arenaria" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Arenaria"):

turnstone (migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food)

Holonyms ("genus Arenaria" is a member of...):

Charadriidae; family Charadriidae (plover family)