DICRANALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dicranales mean? 

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

1. widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICRANALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dicranales; order Dicranales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Dicranales"):

Dicranaceae; family Dicranaceae (mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome)

Holonyms ("Dicranales" 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)