ALISMALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alismales mean? 

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

1. an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALISMALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Alismales"):

family Naiadaceae; family Najadaceae; naiad family; Naiadaceae; Najadaceae (monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers)

Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family (perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants)

family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae (simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed)

family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae (plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae)

arrow-grass family; family Juncaginaceae; family Scheuchzeriaceae; Juncaginaceae; Scheuchzeriaceae (a family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales)

family Zannichelliaceae; Zannichelliaceae (alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species)

eelgrass family; family Zosteraceae; Zosteraceae (used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae)

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

class Liliopsida; class Monocotyledonae; class Monocotyledones; Liliopsida; Monocotyledonae; Monocotyledones (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae)