HyperDic: genus_sagina

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Sagina:
NOUNplantgenus Sagina, Saginasmall low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
English > genus Sagina: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsmall low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
SynonymSagina
Member ofCaryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, carnation family, pink familylarge family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
Memberspearlwort, pearlweed, pearl-weedAny of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
Broadercaryophylloid dicot genusgenus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
Spanishgenus sagina, sagina
Catalangenus sagina, sagina

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