RANUNCULALES

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ranunculales mean? 

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

1. herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANUNCULALES (noun)

Meaning:

Herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ranunculales"):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

family Paeoniaceae; Paeoniaceae; peony family (perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America)

family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family (dicot aquatic plants)

family Myristicaceae; Myristicaceae; nutmeg family (family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds)

family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family (herbaceous or woody climbers)

family Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae (subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia)

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)

family Lardizabalaceae; lardizabala family; Lardizabalaceae (thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit)

Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)

Ceratophyllaceae; family Ceratophyllaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts)

Calycanthaceae; calycanthus family; family Calycanthaceae; strawberry-shrub family (shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia)

barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or herbs)

Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs)

family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)

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

Magnoliidae; ranalian complex; subclass Magnoliidae (a group of families or trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)