CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caryophylloid dicot genus mean? 

• CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS (noun)
  The noun CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

  Familiarity information: CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT GENUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("caryophylloid dicot genus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caryophylloid dicot genus"):

Cereus; genus Cereus (genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white)

genus Lophophora; Lophophora (two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal)

genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus (tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit)

genus Hylocereus; Hylocereus (genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers)

genus Hatiora; Hatiora (small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)

genus Harrisia; Harrisia (genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America)

genus Gymnocalycium; Gymnocalycium (large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles)

Ferocactus; genus Ferocactus (genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti)

genus Epiphyllum (small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti)

Echinocereus; genus Echinocereus (large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States)

genus Echinocactus (globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil)

genus Coryphantha (mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria)

genus Mammillaria (large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface)

Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea (caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro)

Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)

Aporocactus; genus Aporocactus (small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico)

Acanthocereus; genus Acanthocereus (mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region)

genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)

genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis (four o'clocks)

Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillea (ornamental tropical woody vines)

Allionia; genus Allionia (small genus of chiefly American herbs)

Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)

genus Nyctaginia; Nyctaginia (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species)

Agdestis; genus Agdestis (a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates)

genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)

genus Spraguea; Spraguea (small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes)

genus Montia; Montia (small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia)

genus Lewisia; Lewisia (genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers)

Claytonia; genus Claytonia (genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes)

Calandrinia; genus Calandrinia (large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers)

genus Portulaca (genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs)

genus Trichostigma; Trichostigma (a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America)

genus Rivina; Rivina (small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America)

Ercilla; genus Ercilla (a genus of evergreen climbers)

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)

genus Phytolacca; Phytolacca (type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed)

genus Zygocactus; Zygocactus (small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits)

genus Selenicereus; Selenicereus (mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night)

genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera (South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)

genus Rhipsalis; Rhipsalis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits)

genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia (genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers)

genus Opuntia; Opuntia (large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears)

genus Pediocactus; Pediocactus (low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America)

genus Myrtillocactus; Myrtillocactus (small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America)

genus Melocactus; Melocactus (genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean)

genus Moehringia; Moehringia (low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers)

Dorotheanthus; genus Dorotheanthus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus)

Carpobrotus; genus Carpobrotus (a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus)

genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria (cow-cockles)

genus Spergularia; Spergularia (chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry)

genus Spergula; Spergula (small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry)

genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)

genus Scleranthus; Scleranthus (small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel)

genus Saponaria; Saponaria (mostly perennial Old World herbs)

genus Sagina; Sagina (small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions)

genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis (perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

genus Paronychia; Paronychia (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)

genus Lithops (genus of stemless South African succulents)

genus Minuartia; Minuartia (mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts)

genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)

genus Illecebrum; Illecebrum (one species: coral necklace)

genus Hernaria; Hernaria (low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves)

genus Gypsophila; Gypsophila (Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers)

genus Drypis (one species)

Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)

Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)

Arenaria; genus Arenaria (sandworts)

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)

genus Telanthera; Telanthera (used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera)

genus Sarcobatus; Sarcobatus (one species: greasewood)

genus Salsola; Salsola (chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts)

genus Salicornia; Salicornia (glassworts)

genus Halogeton; Cycloloma; genus Cycloloma (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae)

Beta; genus Beta (beets)

Bassia; genus Bassia; genus Kochia; Kochia (summer cypress)

Atriplex; genus Atriplex (orach; saltbush)

Chenopodium; genus Chenopodium (goosefoot; pigweed)

Batis; genus Batis (small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs)

genus Iresine; Iresine (genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs)

genus Gomphrena; Gomphrena (genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia)

Froelichia; genus Froelichia (genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed)

Celosia; genus Celosia (annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa)

Alternanthera; genus Alternanthera (genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera)

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus (large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs)

genus Tetragonia; Tetragonia (New Zealand spinach)

genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)

genus Molluga; Molluga (carpetweeds)

genus Mesembryanthemum; Mesembryanthemum (South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight)

Holonyms ("caryophylloid dicot genus" is a member of...):

Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)