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ORDER PROTEALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with the family Proteaceae
Synonyms:
order Proteales; Proteales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Proteales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Proteales"):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
Holonyms ("order Proteales" 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)
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