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n.; pl. Caryatids [ See Caryatides. ] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; (&unr_;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &unr_;), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids. ] (Arch) Caryatids. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; clove tree; &unr_; nut + &unr_; leaf. ] (Bot.) (a) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink. (b) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of plants which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.
Syn. -- order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free-central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); it contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; it corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Caryophyllidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Caryophyllaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]