MALVALES

• MALVALES (noun)
  The noun MALVALES has 1 sense:

1. Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae

  Familiarity information: MALVALES used as a noun is very rare.

• MALVALES (noun)

Meaning:

Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Malvales; order Malvales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Malvales"):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)

Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae (tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds)

Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae (genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae)

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)

family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae (chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia)

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

Dilleniidae; subclass Dilleniidae (a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)