ORDER UMBELLALES
Dictionary entry overview: What does order Umbellales mean?
• ORDER UMBELLALES (noun)
The noun ORDER UMBELLALES has 1 sense:
1. plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)
Familiarity information: ORDER UMBELLALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ORDER UMBELLALES (noun)
Meaning:
Plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
order Umbellales; Umbellales
Hypernyms ("order Umbellales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Umbellales"):
Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)
Apiaceae; carrot family; family Apiaceae; family Umbelliferae; Umbelliferae (plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill)
Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)
Holonyms ("order Umbellales" is a member of...):
Rosidae; subclass Rosidae (a group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae)
