TAXALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Taxales mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Taxales; Taxales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

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

class Coniferopsida; Coniferophyta; Coniferophytina; Coniferopsida; subdivision Coniferophytina (cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian))