COMMELINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Commelinidae mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMELINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Commelinidae; subclass Commelinidae

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Commelinidae"):

Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)

Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)

Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)

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

class Liliopsida; class Monocotyledonae; class Monocotyledones; Liliopsida; Monocotyledonae; Monocotyledones (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae)