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ORDER CASUARINALES

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Meaning:

Order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas; 1 family: Casuarinaceae

Synonyms:

Casuarinales; order Casuarinales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("order Casuarinales" is a kind of...):

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "order Casuarinales"):

Casuarinaceae; family Casuarinaceae (one genus: genus Casuarina)

Holonyms ("order Casuarinales" 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)

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