URTICALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Urticales mean? 

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

1. an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URTICALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Urticales; Urticales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Urticales"):

family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)

Cannabidaceae; family Cannabidaceae; hemp family (two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae)

family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family (trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis)

Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae (in some classifications included in family Moraceae)

elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae (a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema)

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

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)