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PANDANALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae
Synonyms:
order Pandanales; Pandanales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pandanales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Pandanales"):
family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family (family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus)
cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae (perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves)
bur-reed family; family Sparganiaceae; Sparganiaceae (coextensive with the genus Sparganium)
Holonyms ("Pandanales" 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)