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    ALISMALES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    An order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plantsplay

    Synonyms:

    Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Alismales" is a kind of...):

    plant order (the order of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Alismales"):

    family Naiadaceae; family Najadaceae; naiad family; Naiadaceae; Najadaceae (monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers)

    Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family (perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants)

    family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae (simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed)

    family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae (plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae)

    arrow-grass family; family Juncaginaceae; family Scheuchzeriaceae; Juncaginaceae; Scheuchzeriaceae (a family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales)

    family Zannichelliaceae; Zannichelliaceae (alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species)

    eelgrass family; family Zosteraceae; Zosteraceae (used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae)

    Holonyms ("Alismales" is a member of...):

    class Liliopsida; class Monocotyledonae; class Monocotyledones; Liliopsida; Monocotyledonae; Monocotyledones (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae)

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