Caryophyllaceous: Definition and part of speech

Caryophyllaceous

  1. a. Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
  2. a. Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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