infection - the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

whitlowwort - any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)