a. Bot. [ad. mod.L. Caryophyllāceæ, f. caryophyllus (ad. Gr. καρυόφυλλον), the clove-pink.]
a. Belonging to the N.O. Caryophyllaceæ. b. Applied to a corolla having five petals with long claws, as in the clove-pink.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 335. A caryophyllaceous [corolla] has long, narrow, distant claws.
