"Caryophyllaceous" is a word in ENGLISH
Belonging to the family of which the pink and the
carnation are the types.
Having corollas of five petals with long claws
inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
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A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers …
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