ORDER MUSALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Musales mean? 

• ORDER MUSALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER MUSALES has 1 sense:

1. tropical plants

  Familiarity information: ORDER MUSALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER MUSALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Musales; order Musales

Hypernyms ("order Musales" is a kind of...):

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "order Musales"):

Cannaceae; family Cannaceae (coextensive with the genus Canna)

arrowroot family; family Marantaceae; Marantaceae (tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes)

banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae (treelike tropical Asian herbs)

family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae (woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae)

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)

Holonyms ("order Musales" 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)