FAMILY CARYOPHYLLACEAE

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

1. large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

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

• FAMILY CARYOPHYLLACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family

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

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

Meronyms (members of "family Caryophyllaceae"):

genus Paronychia; Paronychia (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)

genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis (perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

genus Sagina; Sagina (small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions)

genus Saponaria; Saponaria (mostly perennial Old World herbs)

genus Scleranthus; Scleranthus (small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel)

genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)

genus Spergula; Spergula (small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry)

genus Spergularia; Spergularia (chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry)

genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)

genus Moehringia; Moehringia (low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers)

genus Minuartia; Minuartia (mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts)

genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)

caryophyllaceous plant (a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae)

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)

Arenaria; genus Arenaria (sandworts)

Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)

Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)

genus Drypis (one species)

genus Gypsophila; Gypsophila (Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers)

genus Hernaria; Hernaria (low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves)

genus Illecebrum; Illecebrum (one species: coral necklace)

genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)

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

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