noun
widely distributed herbs having palmate leaves and creamy white to or pink to magenta flowers with many stamens of unequal length
• Syn: ↑Polanisia
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Capparidaceae, ↑family Capparidaceae, ↑caper family
• Member Meronyms: ↑clammyweed, ↑Polanisia graveolens, ↑Polanisia dodecandra
Useful english dictionary. 2012.