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PALMALES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coextensive with the family Palmae: palms

Synonyms:

order Palmales; Palmales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Palmales"):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)

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

Arecidae; subclass Arecidae (one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae)

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