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ORDER MUSALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical plants
Synonyms:
Musales; order Musales
Classified under:
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)
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