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PARIETALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
Synonyms:
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Parietales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Parietales"):
family Theaceae; tea family; Theaceae (a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales)
family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family (a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus)
family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family (family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes))
family Resedaceae; mignonette family; Resedaceae (mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette)
family Passifloraceae; Passifloraceae; passionflower family (tropical woody tendril-climbing vines)
family Ochnaceae; ochna family; Ochnaceae (family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves)
family Fouquieriaceae; Fouquieriaceae (small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States)
family Flacourtiaceae; flacourtia family; Flacourtiaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs)
Dipterocarpaceae; family Dipterocarpaceae (chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins)
Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)
Caryocaraceae; family Caryocaraceae (small genus of tropical South American trees)
Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family (trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves)
canella family; Canellaceae; family Canellaceae (one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies)
Actinidiaceae; family Actinidiaceae (tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines)
family Hypericaceae; Hypericaceae (used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae)
Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)
Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae (chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia)
begonia family; Begoniaceae; family Begoniaceae (monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America)
family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae (family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia)
Holonyms ("Parietales" 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)
