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PLANT ORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The order of plants
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plant order" is a kind of...):
order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant order"):
Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)
order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)
order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)
Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)
Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)
order Polygonales; Polygonales (coextensive with the family Polygonaceae,)
order Plantaginales; Plantaginales (coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae)
order Palmales; Palmales (coextensive with the family Palmae: palms)
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
Guttiferales; order Guttiferales (used in some classifications; coextensive with Parietales)
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)
Oleales; order Oleales (coextensive with the family Oleaceae; in some classifications included in the order Gentianales)
Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)
Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)
Isoetales; order Isoetales (aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales)
order Selaginellales; Selaginellales (in some classifications included in Lycopodiales)
Lycopodiales; order Lycopodiales (lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae)
Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales (fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous)
Equisetales; order Equisetales (lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian)
order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)
order Psilotales; Psilotales (lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots)
Marattiales; order Marattiales (lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae)
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)
order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)
order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
Ophioglossales; order Ophioglossales (coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae)
order Scrophulariales; Scrophulariales (used in some classification systems; often included in the order Polemoniales)
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
order Santalales; Santalales (order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots)
order Salicales; Salicales (coextensive with the family Salicaceae)
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)
Ginkgoales; order Ginkgoales (coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species; often included in Coniferales)
order Taxales; Taxales (coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews)
Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)
Cordaitales; order Cordaitales (extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era)
Cycadofilicales; Lyginopteridales; order Cycadofilicales; order Lyginopteridales (fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns)
Bennettitales; order Bennettitales (fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous)
Cycadales; order Cycadales (primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms)
Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)
order Sphaerocarpales; Sphaerocarpales (small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales)
Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)
Jungermanniales; order Jungermanniales (large order of chiefly tropical liverworts)
order Sphagnales; Sphagnales (coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass)
Eubryales; order Eubryales (mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules)
Dicranales; order Dicranales (widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems)
Bryales; order Bryales (category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space)
Andreaeales; order Andreaeales (comprises a single genus: Andreaea)
Anthocerotales; order Anthocerotales (hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida)
Diapensiales; order Diapensiales (used in some classifications: coextensive with family Diapensiaceae)
Ericales; order Ericales (Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae)
Casuarinales; order Casuarinales (order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas; 1 family: Casuarinaceae)
order Proteales; Proteales (coextensive with the family Proteaceae)
order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))
Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)
order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)
Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)
order Plumbaginales; Plumbaginales (coextensive with the family Plumbaginaceae; usually included in order Primulales)
order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)
Orchidales; order Orchidales (order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae)
Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
Opuntiales; order Opuntiales (coextensive with the family Cactaceae: cactuses)
Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)
Aristolochiales; order Aristolochiales (order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary)
Arales; order Arales (Araceae; Lemnaceae)
Myricales; order Myricales (coextensive with the family Myricaceae)
Holonyms ("plant order" is a member of...):
kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
