caryophyllaceousadj.
/ˌkarɪəʊfɪˈleɪʃ(ɪ)əs/ Botany.
(a) Belonging to the family Caryophyllaceæ. (b) Applied to a corolla having five petals with long claws, as in the clove-pink.
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corolline1830
caryophyllaceous1835
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 335 A caryophyllaceous [corolla] has long, narrow, distant claws.
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