SPHAGNALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sphagnales mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPHAGNALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Sphagnales; Sphagnales

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)