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PAPAVERALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of dicotyledonous plants
Synonyms:
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Papaverales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Papaverales"):
caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae (a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia)
Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)
family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)
family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family (erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn)
Holonyms ("Papaverales" 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)