COMMELINALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Commelinales mean? 

• COMMELINALES (noun)
  The noun COMMELINALES has 1 sense:

1. an order of monocotyledonous herbs

  Familiarity information: COMMELINALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMELINALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of monocotyledonous herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Commelinales"):

family Xyridaceae; Xyridaceae; yellow-eyed grass family (plants of tropical to temperate regions; usually in wet places)

Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family (large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts)

Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family (a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance)

family Mayacaceae; Mayacaceae (a monocotyledonous family of bog plants of order Xyridales)

family Rapateaceae; Rapateaceae (South American herbs somewhat resembling members of the Juncaceae)

Eriocaulaceae; family Eriocaulaceae; pipewort family (chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts)

family Pontederiaceae; pickerelweed family; Pontederiaceae (aquatic or bog plants)

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

Commelinidae; subclass Commelinidae (one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises about 19,000 species in 25 families of mostly terrestrial herbs especially of moist places including: Cyperaceae; Gramineae; Bromeliaceae; and Zingiberaceae)