nyctaginia

English Thesaurus

1. a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	nyctaginia capitata, scarlet musk flower,
definition	:	viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	allioniaceae, family allioniaceae, family nyctaginaceae, four-o'clock family, nyctaginaceae,
definition	:	a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales (noun.plant)