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RUBIALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary
Synonyms:
order Rubiales; Rubiales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Rubiales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Rubiales"):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)
Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae (chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads)
family Valerianaceae; valerian family; Valerianaceae (genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor)
Holonyms ("Rubiales" is a member of...):
Asteridae; subclass Asteridae (a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder)
