GENUS PARONYCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Paronychia mean? 

• GENUS PARONYCHIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PARONYCHIA has 1 sense:

1. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts

  Familiarity information: GENUS PARONYCHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PARONYCHIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Paronychia; Paronychia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Paronychia"):

whitlowwort (any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail))

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

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