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GENUS MESEMBRYANTHEMUM

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

1. South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight

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

• GENUS MESEMBRYANTHEMUM (noun)

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Meaning:

South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mesembryanthemum; Mesembryanthemum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Mesembryanthemum"):

fig marigold; pebble plant (any of several South African plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum cultivated for showy pink or white flowers)

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

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
(English proverb)
"Weeps the field because of no seeds."
(Albanian proverb)
"Don't count the teeth of a gift horse."
(Armenian proverb)
"The doctor comes to the house where the sun can't reach."
(Corsican proverb)

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