purslane family
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1. family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | caryophylloid dicot family, |
| definition | : | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus portulaca, |
| definition | : | genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | calandrinia, genus calandrinia, |
| definition | : | large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | claytonia, genus claytonia, |
| definition | : | genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lewisia, lewisia, |
| definition | : | genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus montia, montia, |
| definition | : | small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus spraguea, spraguea, |
| definition | : | small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus talinum, talinum, |
| definition | : | genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs (noun.plant) |
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