CLAYTONIA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Claytonia mean? 

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

1. genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAYTONIA (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Claytonia; genus Claytonia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Claytonia"):

Carolina spring beauty; Claytonia caroliniana (similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America)

Clatonia lanceolata; spring beauty (small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm)

Claytonia virginica; Virginia spring beauty (small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America)

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

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