calandrinia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An untenable name for Baitaria, a genus of plants of the family Portulacaceæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers.

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• noun large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers