HERNARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hernaria mean? 

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

1. low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERNARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hernaria; Hernaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Hernaria"):

Hernaria glabra; rupturewort (common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))