SARRACENIALES

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sarraceniales mean? 

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

1. plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARRACENIALES (noun)

Meaning:

Plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Sarraceniales"):

family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae (insectivorous plants)

pitcher plant (any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales)

family Nepenthaceae; Nepenthaceae (coextensive with the genus Nepenthes)

Droseraceae; family Droseraceae; sundew family (a family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs)

family Roridulaceae; Roridulaceae (in some classifications included in the family Droseraceae)

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

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)