Associations to the word «Caryophyllaceae»

Wiktionary

CARYOPHYLLACEAE, proper noun. A taxonomic family within the order Caryophyllales   — very many herbs and shrubs including the pinks, carnations and campions.

Dictionary definition

CARYOPHYLLACEAE, noun. Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope