English > family Caryophyllaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes). |
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| Synonyms | Caryophyllaceae, carnation family, pink family |
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| Member of | Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales | corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae |
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| Members | Agrostemma, genus Agrostemma | A caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles |
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| Arenaria, genus Arenaria | sandworts / sandworts / sandworts |
| Cerastium, genus Cerastium | mouse-eared chickweed |
| Dianthus, genus Dianthus | carnations and pinks |
| Gypsophila, genus Gypsophila | Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers |
| Hernaria, genus Hernaria | low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves |
| Illecebrum, genus Illecebrum | One species |
| Minuartia, genus Minuartia | Mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit |
| Moehringia, genus Moehringia | low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere |
| Paronychia, genus Paronychia | low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants |
| Petrocoptis, genus Petrocoptis | perennial tussock-forming rock plants |
| Sagina, genus Sagina | small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions |
| Saponaria, genus Saponaria | Mostly perennial Old World herbs |
| Scleranthus, genus Scleranthus | small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals |
| Spergula, genus Spergula | small genus of Old World annual herbs |
| Spergularia, genus Spergularia | chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs |
| Stellaria, genus Stellaria | common chickweed |
| Vaccaria, genus Vaccaria | Cow-cockles |
| caryophyllaceous plant | A plant of the family Caryophyllaceae |
| genus Drypis | One species |
| genus Lychnis | genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene |
| genus Silene | large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors |
| Broader | caryophylloid dicot family | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
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| Spanish | cariofiláceas |
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| Catalan | cariofil·làcia, cariofil·làcies, Caryophyllaceae |
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