ARIOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ariocarpus mean? 

• ARIOCARPUS (noun)
  The noun ARIOCARPUS has 1 sense:

1. slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas

  Familiarity information: ARIOCARPUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARIOCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus

Hypernyms ("Ariocarpus" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Ariocarpus"):

Ariocarpus fissuratus; living rock (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)

Holonyms ("Ariocarpus" is a member of...):

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)