talinum
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1. genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | caryophylloid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, talinum aurantiacum, |
| definition | : | plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | pigmy talinum, talinum brevifolium, |
| definition | : | low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | rock pink, talinum calycinum, |
| definition | : | pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | spiny talinum, talinum spinescens, |
| definition | : | low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
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