noun
large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers
• Syn: ↑Calandrinia
• Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Portulacaceae, ↑family Portulacaceae, ↑purslane family
• Member Meronyms: ↑rock purslane, ↑red maids, ↑redmaids, ↑Calandrinia ciliata
Useful english dictionary. 2012.