saltwort family
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| Noun | 1. |  saltwort family - family coextensive with genus Batis: saltwortscaryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order Caryophyllales, order-Chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae Batis, genus Batis - small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs |
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