genus ariocarpus

English Thesaurus

1. slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryophylloid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	ariocarpus fissuratus, living rock,
definition	:	usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cactaceae, cactus family, family cactaceae,
definition	:	constituting the order Opuntiales (noun.plant)