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RANUNCULALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae
Synonyms:
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ranunculales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Ranunculales"):
Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs)
barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or herbs)
Calycanthaceae; calycanthus family; family Calycanthaceae; strawberry-shrub family (shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia)
Ceratophyllaceae; family Ceratophyllaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts)
Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)
family Lardizabalaceae; lardizabala family; Lardizabalaceae (thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit)
family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)
family Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae (subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia)
family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family (herbaceous or woody climbers)
family Myristicaceae; Myristicaceae; nutmeg family (family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds)
family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family (dicot aquatic plants)
family Paeoniaceae; Paeoniaceae; peony family (perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America)
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)
Holonyms ("Ranunculales" is a member of...):
Magnoliidae; ranalian complex; subclass Magnoliidae (a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)
