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SPHAGNALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass

Synonyms:

order Sphagnales; Sphagnales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Sphagnales"):

genus Sphagnum (a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water)

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

Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci (true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales)

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