SANTALALES

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

1. order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots

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

• SANTALALES (noun)

Meaning:

Order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Santalales; Santalales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Santalales"):

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)

family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)

family Viscaceae; mistletoe family; Viscaceae (in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae)

Holonyms ("Santalales" 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)