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ORDER GRAMINALES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grasses; sedges; rushes

Synonyms:

Graminales; order Graminales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "order Graminales"):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)

Holonyms ("order Graminales" is a member of...):

Commelinidae; subclass Commelinidae (one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises about 19,000 species in 25 families of mostly terrestrial herbs especially of moist places including: Cyperaceae; Gramineae; Bromeliaceae; and Zingiberaceae)

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