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PALMALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with the family Palmae: palms
Synonyms:
order Palmales; Palmales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Palmales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Palmales"):
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)
Holonyms ("Palmales" is a member of...):
Arecidae; subclass Arecidae (one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae)
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